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COVID-19 pandemic in the Canary Islands

COVID-19 viral pandemic in the Canary Islands

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ88082622 ↗
Source-derived summary

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to the Canary Islands, Spain, on 31 January 2020, when a German tourist was tested positive in La Gomera. The second confirmed case of the disease in the islands was found on 24 February, following the outbreak in Italy, when a medical doctor from Lombardy, Italy who was vacationing in Tenerife was tested positive for the disease. Afterwards, multiple cases were detected in Tenerife involving people who had come into contact with the same doctor.

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“COVID-19 pandemic in the Canary Islands” enters the record as cOVID-19 viral pandemic in the Canary Islands. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what COVID-19, pandemic and Canary can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around COVID-19, pandemic and Canary.
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“COVID-19 pandemic in the Canary Islands” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, COVID-19, pandemic and Canary provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q88082622. Authority coordinates are 28.536, -15.749. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “COVID-19 pandemic in the Canary Islands” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.