The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has clarified today, that the proposal to increase the maximum number of diners in Covid alert Level 3 from six to ten on the designated dates of Christmas, New Year, and Reyes, will be only among vaccinated people, since the objective is to continue promoting vaccination and ensuring that gatherings are as safe as possible.
"We have already said that at level 3 there are a maximum of six people and our will is to be able to raise it as long as we are encouraging vaccination. That is, we can pass to ten people if they are vaccinated," he said. Speaking to the media earlier today, he confirmed that this will be the proposal taken to the extra Governing Council meeting on Monday, when they will also agree to request that the Covid Certificate be mandatory and not voluntary.
"In summer we had difficulties. Some restrictive measures were not endorsed by the TSJC in the Canary Islands and we saw how, thanks to the increase in vaccinations, the situation was turned around," he explained.
Torres pointed out that there is currently an added situation, which is the Omicron variant, which is tremendously contagious although apparently less lethal. "It is true that the healthcare pressure is lower than in August”, he added, “but that does not mean anything. We are seeing how healthcare pressure is increasing in other regions".
"We are not free from Covid”, he said “We have to respect distances. You cannot enter a nightclub and remove your mask, and whoever is controlling the entrance of the nightclub has to comply with the rules or, failing that, the maximum possible financial sanction will be imposed".
Torres made special emphasis on the fact that the Government does not want the spike in infections to affect the economy. "So far we have done well. We are about to enter 2022, and we need that normality for health and for the economy of the Canary Islands to continue," he concluded.
