The President of the Canarian Government, Ángel Víctor Torres, stated this morning to the microphones of Cope Tenerife that “In January we are not to be thinking about carnivals in February and it is logical that they are delayed. That is what the institutions that are in charge of organizing it are deciding and it is they who must establish when they delay it.”
In this way he was referring to the change of date, in particular The Gran Canarian palms -that from this Saturday raises to level 4 health alert– the organization of the Carnival postponed it from February 25 to March 10, while Santa Cruz of Tenerife He decided to give himself a longer period of time and delay it until the month of June.
Ángel Víctor Torres explains that “Public Health is limited to issuing reports on the situation of the pandemic when requested preventively”, to specify that it is the organizations of both carnivals who determine the postponement and set the new date based on the incidence of the pandemic. “The last decision corresponds to the administration, although the logical and prudent thing is to delay it”, he reiterated to questions from Mayer Trujillo.
“I hope that this situation will improve and enter February with other figures.” “Within seven days we will be certain that we are in decline,” the president of the Canarian Government was confident, recovering at home after giving positive days ago in covid.
Torres explained that reports are issued on massive events, such as the arrival of the Kings at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium or the massive cavalcades of Santa Cruz. “In level 3, 8,000 people were allowed in the sports venue for the reception of the Three Wise Men in Tenerife and a thousand in level 4, so finally the responsible administration decided to suspend it,” he added.
“If today they asked for a report on the celebration of the Carnival, it would be negative without a doubt. Carnival should not be held in February. seems consistent the decision of Las Palmas and delay it for two weekss”, and left the door open to a new postponement at the party directed by Inma Medina. “The right thing is to delay Carnival. It seems very logical to me to do it for two weeks and do it again if the health circumstances do not arise”, concluded the Canarian president in his assessment of the impact of the pandemic on the programming of festive events and the measures that both Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria have adopted.
