The Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands has implemented the first health measure for Easter by extending the necessity of all passengers, coming to the islands from the rest of the national territory, by air or sea, to present a negative Covid test to enter the archipelago, until midnight on Monday April 5th.
Between December 18th and February 23rd, over 206,000 travellers came to the Canary Islands and 87% did so with a diagnostic test performed at origin. A total of 402 positive cases of Covid-19 were detected among passengers who underwent the test within 72 hours before their arrival in the Islands from other regions of the country. Of these 402 positives, 339 were confirmed by PCR (325 residents and 14 non-residents) and the remaining 63 by antigen testing (48 residents and 15 non-residents).
