A British tourist has died in Lanzarote having caught the coronavirus.
The OAP, who has not been named, is the second Covid-19 fatality on the Spanish island.
Regional health officials said the man was more than 70-years-old and confirmed he was a tourist, but offered no more details about his identity.
A spokesman for the regional health authority said: “I can confirm a British tourist on the island has died after testing positive for coronavirus.
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“He had underlying health issues.”
He lost his fight against the killer virus today at Molina Orosa Hospital in Lanzarote’s capital Arrecife.
It was not immediately clear where on the island he was staying before he was taken ill and how long he had been in hospital.
The first fatality from Covid-19 on the island was of a 71-year-old German expat.
On Monday a British tourist became the first person to die from coronavirus in Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean.
The unnamed Brit died in hospital around 11pm local time on Monday.
He was taken ill after checking into the five-star Hotel Riu Karamboa on Boa Vista - one of the archipelago’s most visited islands - on March 9.
He was admitted to Sal Rei Hospital on March 16 where he failed to recover from the killer virus.
The hotel's management decided it would have to go into a 14-day lockdown with 640 tourists and 210 staff inside following the death.
Cape Verde’s Prime Minister subsequently announced the island of Boa Vista would also go into lockdown.
