SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Governing Council of the Canary Islands has approved this Monday in an extraordinary session that family gatherings on Christmas Eve and Christmas – days 24 and 25 – are limited to a maximum of ten people, except cohabitants, on the islands that are at level 2 and 3 of epidemiological alert – Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and La Palma.
This was advanced at a press conference by the Deputy Minister of the Presidency, Antonio Olivera, who has commented that the evolution of the pandemic is “worrying” and that is why a “close monitoring” of the cases will be carried out to make new face decisions. to the New Year’s Eve festival.
This limitation of people will not apply in public leisure and restaurant establishments where lunches and dinners are kept at six people in the case of islands in level 3, eight in islands in level 2 and 12 in which they have level 1 –the Locals can lower the demands if they voluntarily request the Covid certificate from customers.
Olivera has once again appealed to the “responsibility of maintaining the maximum” the precautionary and prevention rules that go through hand hygiene, safety distance, use of a mask, ‘Covid certificate’ and diagnostic tests to give “more peace of mind” for any kind of encounter.