SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has advanced this Thursday that in the session of the Governing Council additional measures will be taken to control the Covid-19 to guarantee that there is a “good winter” in the islands and not venues or activities are closed.
“We will do everything possible”, he pointed out in a press conference in which he recalled that the Executive has the power to take measures thanks to the latest decree law already validated by Parliament and pending as a bill, a tool that is launched “when things could go wrong” and now a “rebound” in infections has been detected, which shows that “it was necessary.”
He has said that the use of the ‘covid certificate’ has already been approved in the past and went “hand in hand” with the hospitality and leisure sector, but it was suspended by the courts and the Government complied with the measure.
Torres has also pointed out that in the airports the request to present the so-called ‘Covid passport’ is maintained, to which can be added the measures included in the tourism decree of the Canarian Government that were eliminated due to the “good evolution” of the pandemic.
On the rise in epidemiological alert levels in the islands, he has commented that they are not part of the “political debate” since they are taken following “scientific criteria” and according to the reports of the Department of Public Health.
The president has valued at least the hospital saturation is still low in the Canary Islands and affects mainly the unvaccinated population group, something that he blamed on the “magnificent management” of the vaccination campaign in the archipelago.
