The Canary Islands Government will make the limit of people in spaces of public and private use for the most important days of next Christmas due to the expansion of the covid-19: December 24, 25 and 31; and on January 1 and 6, the feast of the Magi. Thus, the meeting of up to 10 diners will be allowed in the celebrations of those days indicated in the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, which have become alert level 3 by coronavirus after the decision of the Governing Council adopted this Thursday, December 16.
In this way, the measure rectifies the limitations set in principle for both islands in 6 people. This was advanced this Friday by the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, who has announced that the limit initially set will rise from 6 to 10 people on December 24, 25 and 31 and on January 1 and 6, the key dates of the Christmas holidays.
The measure will be approved in a Governing Council of the regional Executive that will be held at the beginning of next week in which the data of the covid pandemic will be evaluated again.
And it is that in just one week, cases have skyrocketed in the coronavirus Archipelago as they had never done before in the almost two years of the pandemic. Who seems to be behind this exorbitant increase is, among other possible circumstances, the variant omicron, whose expansion throughout the Islands, especially Tenerife, is “causing great concern” to the Government of the Canary Islands. This circumstance, together with the data of the pandemic – which They broke records again this Thursday for the second day in a row-, has forced the Executive to limit the number of diners that they will be able to be together at Christmas both in Gran Canaria and in Tenerife.
In addition to this measure, the Ministry of Health wants to implement the mandatory covid certificate in some places or events in which there is a greater risk of contagion. Regarding the Ministry of Education, it has been proposed to suspend all Christmas school parties, however, the teaching activity will be maintained. The rest of the islands, after the last revision of the covid certificate, have passed to level 2 in the case of La Palma and level 3 is maintained in Fuerteventura. The rest of the islands remain at 1.
A message on social networks and instant messaging seeks to sow confusion by taking advantage of the outbreak in a Tenerife nightclub, which already has 69 affected. That is why the Sanidd Council has come up against this misinformation.
