Spain's Canary Islands is to ban smoking outdoors when social distancing cannot be guaranteed to curb the coronavirus. It comes a day after Galicia took a similar measure.
The smoking ban will come into effect on Friday along with mandatory wearing of face masks in all public spaces, Canaries regional leader Angel Victor Torres said.
The Canary Islands, a tourism hotspot off northwest Africa, had been the only Spanish region where it was not obligatory to use face masks.
Officials in regions including Madrid and Andalusia said they were considering similar smoking restrictions. "Smoking will not be allowed in open spaces, in places where there are crowds, if there is not sufficient social distance," Torres told a news conference, adding