Tenerife continues to be ‘stabilising’ the Covid situation on the island, but not ‘controlling’ it, as data clearly shows by staying as it is and not reducing at a rate that it should be. The island has now been in the ‘red zone’ for more than six months, which is having an incidence rate over 14 days (IA14) of more than 50, the level at which the UK, Germany, and now the whole of the EU use to determine whether travel is advised to a destination or not.
The last time Tenerife was below this threshold was on August 26th last year, when 48.5 cases were recorded, so in simple terms if the UK allowed travel now, if Germany lifted restrictions, tourists would not be allowed to come to the island, it would be for essential travel only.
It seems that we have not learned our lesson after the harsh restrictions over the Christmas period. On December 23rd the IA 14 was 248.60, which is why the extra restrictions were implemented, but this fell to 66.70, on February 13th, but just 18 days later (yesterday) the figure is touching a hundred at 98.30.
