BRIT tourists won't be allowed back to Tenerife until at least October, island bosses said.

Regional government chiefs say the plan is to open hotels in July or August for Spanish holidaymakers before receiving foreign tourists in autumn.

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Tenerife was at the centre of an international coronavirus drama in February when the four-star H10 Costa Adeje Palace suffered Spain’s first lockdown after an Italian guest tested positive for Covid-19.

Canary Islands’ president Angel Victor Torres has told local press: “The Canary Islands were the first to have coronavirus in Spain and now we want to be the first out of confinement.”

Today he said the reactivation of international tourism was the third phase of a recovery plan based around Canary Islands’ residents first and mainland Spaniards second.

Insisting the road back to recovery had to be graduated and “international tourism” would be phase three, he told Spanish daily El Mundo: “That way, in October, November or December, which are good months in the Canary Islands, we can begin to receive tourists from other countries.”

Revealing the regional government’s plans for the reopening of hotels, he added: “The first forecast was June 1.

“Today, that plan is too optimistic. If in the months of July or August we can get hotels open, we would be on the right path.”

Meanwhile, the country has suffered a setback in its fight against coronavirus after a small rise in the number of Covid-19 deaths.

Health chiefs announced today 430 people had died in the previous 24 hours.

The new figure emerged a day after Spain recorded its lowest single-day death tally for nearly a month – 399 people.

It was the first time the number of daily deaths from the killer virus had dropped below 400 since March 22 when health chiefs revealed 394 people had lost their lives.

All last week Spain was announcing numbers above the 500-mark.

At the start of the month the number of daily deaths peaked at over 900.

The number of people with Covid-19 who have died in Spain since the start of the world coronavirus crisis now stands at 21,282.

The number of confirmed cases has reached 204,178 and the number of cured patients stands at 82,514.

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