Tenerife drops to Level 3 and the rest of the islands stay the same

After studying the epidemiological situation of the archipelago in this morning’s Governing Council meeting, the Canary Islands Government has announced that Tenerife is dropping to alert Level 3 due to the improvement of its epidemiological indicators, but Gran Canaria is staying Level 4.

The evolution of the indicators in the rest of the islands still does not present enough stability to allow other changes in levels, according to the President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, in the press conference after the meeting.

This means the islands are now as follows:
LEVEL 4: Gran Canaria
LEVEL 3: Tenerife, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera, and El Hierro
LEVEL 2: Lanzarote.
LEVEL 1: None.

Tenerife goes to level 3 due to the improvement of the Health care indicators over the last 14 days, as occupancy of hospital beds in wards by Covid patients has reduced from a high-risk level to a medium level, and the occupancy of ICU beds has also decreases to medium risk level.

However, the evolution of the indicators will be closely observed in case the slightly upward evolution of the 7 day incidence rate in the last week is maintained, and an impact on these indicators is seen.

The change of level will take effect tonight (Thursday) at midnight and means that Tenerife now has the following changes in restrictions:

- General capacity: 100% outdoors and 75% indoors.

- Groups of people in spaces for public and private use, indoors or outdoors: 12 people maximum, except cohabitants.

– Closing times in establishments and activities that, prior to the pandemic, did not have a fixed closing time or had a later one: 4:00am.

– Nightlife (nightclubs fun pubs, discos): 100% outdoors and 75% indoors, with tables of 12 people and closing at 4:00am.

– Hospitality, bars, and restaurants: 100% capacity outdoors and 75% indoors, with tables of 12 people and closing time at 4:00am.

- Practice of non-federated physical and sports activity outdoors and in sports centres and gyms: 100% capacity outdoors and 75% indoors and in groups of a maximum of 12 people.

– Attendance at federated sports at a regional or island level, outdoors or indoors, and non-federated sports outdoors: 100% public capacity outdoors and 75% public capacity indoors.

– Cultural activity (cinemas, theatres, auditoriums): in open-air public spaces it can have 100% capacity and in closed cultural and artistic venues and establishments 75%.

– Health centres: visits are allowed in hospitals as normal.