This afternoon the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, will officially propose to his Government that they appeal against the decision of the Supreme Court to prevent them from decreeing a curfew in the islands at Levels 3 or 4, on a day when Covid cases continue to grow and will probably set a new record.
“The Ministry of Health have informed me that at the moment we are already above 600 new positives today, and the data will surely be worse than yesterday, taking into account that yesterday's 634 new positives was a record also”, Torres said before going to the Governing Council meeting, confirming that the Canary Islands will be the first region to go to the Supreme Court of Spain to ask them to endorse the curfews without the state of alarm, given the disparity of criteria between regional courts.
However, not only are cases growing, Torres warned, but hospital pressure is also starting to rise, with increases in the admissions of patients with Covid-19, which have now reached more than 25% in a single day at the Hospital de La Candelaria in Tenerife.
Torres stressed that he respects the decision of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands that does not consider a curfew to be justified or proportionate for islands on alert levels 3 and 4, which are the two highest levels.
However, Torres does not share the arguments of the TSJC and his Government will ask the Supreme Court to amend them, because he considers that the curfew is "the measure that is needed to contain contagions”, and in his initial proposal he stressed that a good part of the outbreaks were occurring in large ‘botellons’ and gatherings at night.
