SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC) publishes this Tuesday the Order of the Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo, which regulates the screening of national travelers who arrive by air or sea to the islands between 00.00 hours of this Wednesday until midnight on January 15, 2021.
With this measure, which can be extended beyond January 15 if necessary, it seeks to contain the transmission of infections caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as was done between December 2020 and September 2021.
Thus, those who arrive in the Canary Islands from another Spanish autonomous community must present the vaccination certificate against COVID-19, a diagnostic test of negative active infection or the certificate of having passed the disease less than six months before the date of the displacement.
This measure, which remained in force between December 18 and September 30, constitutes a necessary tool to continue with the control and containment of imported cases of coronavirus in travelers from other parts of the national territory and while accelerating the pace of vaccination against COVID-19.
The conditions set out in the standard include the exclusion of screening by means of active infection diagnostic tests (PDIA) for passengers under 12 years and three months who enter the Canary Islands from the rest of the national territory, by air or sea. to contain the spread of infections caused by SARS-CoV-2.
For the rest of the population, the regulations that require presenting a vaccination certificate against COVID-19 or undergoing an Active Infection Diagnostic Test (PDIA) for SARS-CoV-2 with a negative result, carried out at origin within the 72 hours prior to arrival in the Canary Islands in the case of PCR and 48 hours in the case of an antigen test.
In the exceptional case that a person has not carried out the PDIA at origin, it will be carried out at the arrival terminal and those who refuse to carry it out must keep isolation in their residence for 10 days, without prejudice to the sanctioning measures that are could take.
EVENTS OF EXCLUSION FROM CARRYING OUT THE PDIA
The presentation of negative PDIA at the time of entry to the Canary Islands will not be required, in addition to children under 12 years and three months, to people who prove to be vaccinated against COVID-19 with the complete vaccination schedule with a minimum 14 days prior to arrival in the archipelago; people who can prove that they have passed the disease less than 6 months before the date of the displacement and with a minimum of 11 days from the positive result of the first diagnostic test; people in transit who make a stopover in the Canary Islands whose final destination is another country or another place in the national territory and people who prove they have been outside the Canary Islands for a period of less than 72 hours prior to arrival, regardless of their place of residence.
The certificate of vaccination and recovery of COVID-19 can be obtained in the application www.micertificadocovid.com or by accessing mySCS, within the myHistory web space.
The Ministry of Health recommends that, in order to speed up the process of verifying COVID certificates in the ports and airports of the Canary Islands, the QR code of the certificate is downloaded from the ‘myHistory app’ and this code is presented from the mobile phone, to avoid delays in the electronic reading of the certificate in paper format.
To date, 1,818,951 certificates have been downloaded in the Canary Islands, of which 1,562,884 are for vaccination, 234,381 for diagnostic tests and 21,686 for having passed the disease.
