Following yesterdays Governing Council meeting, Julio Pérez explained that the Government is studying using the Covid digital certificate as a kind of "passport" to access hospitality or leisure establishments to limit access to the interiors as one of the new measures to control the pandemic in the Canary Islands. The hospitality and tourism associations have already given their approval to this possibility.
So far more than half a million people have already downloaded their certificate from the website or www.micertificadocovid.com which shows your vaccination status, PCR or antigen test results, or whether you have recovered from the virus in the last six months.
Perez said, “This is an easy testing principle, the Covid certificate can be a useful tool, this is what we established in accommodation complexes, immunity must be accredited and this system can be extended and perfected, and used as a kind of internal passport.”
The Canary Islands would not be the first place to introduce this idea, as it has already been proposed in Valencia. According to the regional secretary of the Valencian Community, Francesc Colomer, “We want it to be required to enter cultural venues, concerts, festivals and even hotels and restaurants."
In France, Manuel Macron, its president, announced this measure as being "key" to stopping the pandemic and said that “the locals must see it as a positive reason for use and not resent its operation”. In this way, France seeks to promote more vaccination, since it will be the majority of venues and shows that require the Covid certificate for entry.
So far they have gone from originally requiring it in venues of 100 people, to requiring it in venues of only 50 for shows and events, but as of August, it will be extended to restaurants, bars, terraces, shopping centres, hospitals, nursing homes or medical establishments, and when using means of long-distance transport.
