The Governing Council will study "a new package of measures" today with the aim of stopping the rebound of the pandemic in the islands, in view of the upcoming Christmas holidays and the increase in the arrival of tourists from European countries with very high incidence rates, and the fact that the Supreme Court in Galicia have now endorsed the use of the Covid certificate with certain conditions.
Other parts of Spain, including the Basque Country, are going to request judicial endorsement again for the Covid certificate to access interiors in sectors such as restaurants or nightlife, after it was rejected by the TSJC in July, because this ruling in Galicia opens the door to request it again.
“Together with Galicia, we were the first region of Spain to request the use of the Covid certificate and the TSJC rejected it. Now there is a ruling from the Supreme Court that gives guidelines to be able to implement the measure, and we are analyzing how to do it," said the Minister of Health for the Canary Islands, Blas Trujillo, in a meeting with the Minister of Health for Spain, Carolina Darias, at the Doctor Negrín hospital in Las Palmas yesterday.
“We continue to think the same way, and that it is a very useful thing. We continue to believe that we have sufficient reasons to be able to propose a measure like this," he added.
Trujillo stressed that the requirement of the COVID certificate indoors, where there is a greater risk of contagion, is one of the measures that different EU countries are using to stop the virus. "In Germany they are even asking to enter hairdressers," he said.
Another measure that the Canary Islands Government will study today is to demand the vaccination certificate or a negative test result again to be able to stay in hotels on the islands. In addition, it is working with the Canarian Federation of Municipalities to determine which events can be held at Christmas. Trujillo stressed that everything depends on the evolution of the pandemic. "We are constantly analyzing the situation to, above all, anticipate it before it worsens," he said.
For her part, Carolina Darias assured that measures such as the implementation of the COVID certificate depend on each region, some have already had the pleasure of their Superior Courts applying it, adding that there is now "an open path" after the ruling in Galicia if it is done for a specific period of time and if the epidemiological situation justifies it.
