The Minister of Health of the Canary Islands, Blas Trujillo, has said that the refusal of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) to authorize a curfew in the islands at level 3 and 4, "they have taken away the most powerful tool, apart from vaccination, to deal with the spread of infections”.
Trujillo was reacting to the resolution of the Administrative Litigation Chamber of the TSJC while speaking in the Canary Islands Parliament, and before the plenary session he described the decision as a "major setback" confessing that it has left him "in an emotional situation and a little perplexed”.
"Limiting mobility is the most important thing" to stop contagion, said Trujillo, and commented that in this regard there have been "different legal opinions", which is why "in some autonomous communities it is allowed, and in others, it is not."
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has confirmed in Parliament that the Government will appeal the decision because although he respects the judicial decision, he does not share it and has alluded to the favourable report of the Public Prosecutor's Office which states that the Government has "very strong arguments in favour of the curfew”.
In addition, Torres said he finds it hard to digest that this judicial decision is taken on the day in which the highest number of infections has been registered in the Canary Islands since the start of the pandemic, with 634 cases reported in the last 24 hours.
