The president of the Canary Islands, Angel Victor Torres, said today that the Canary Islands have the facility to administer 30,000 vaccines a day, which would mean having 70% of its population over 16 years of age immunized in three months and 21 days, which is May 26th.
Torres said this in a press conference today after meeting with his advisory council, but the capacity of the islands to vaccinate 30,000 a day contrasts strongly with reality, which reflects that so far, in the best of days, the Canary Islands have been able to inoculate 6,300 vaccines, due to a shortage of supply.
The president has reiterated the importance for laboratories to send the doses promised in the contracts signed by the EU to Spain as soon as possible, since vaccination against Covid-19 constitutes "the most important economic incentive" for regions like this one so reliant on tourism.
He appealed to the responsibility of the companies supplying vaccines, emphasizing that the speed with which the population is immunized will depend on whether the islands can live without a curfew or whether it has to continue.
The Employers associations and unions have asked Torres to make public its recognition of the effort made by the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) in managing the crisis unleashed by the spread of Covid-19 and in the vaccination efforts, to which 2,300 workers have been assigned.
