SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Official Gazette of the Canary Islands has published today, Monday, the extension of the Order of January 7, which modulates certain measures applicable to level 4 of the health alert for COVID-19, which will be applicable until next February 24, according to informed the Ministry of Health.
The extension of the Order affects the capacity in certain activities or establishments and the advancement to 00:00 of the closing time in those establishments and activities that, prior to the pandemic, did not have a set closing time, or had a higher one.
After agreeing on this extension, the Order will be in force until midnight on February 24, without prejudice to the possibility of extension depending on the evolution of the epidemiological situation or other circumstances that justify it.
The measures that are modulated in this rule are fundamentally related to the capacity of certain establishments or activities, either to distinguish between open and closed spaces due to the different level of risk they entail, or because they are establishments or activities in which it has been put There is a lower risk of transmission due to their intrinsic characteristics or due to the people who frequent them, or because they correspond to establishments or activities in which the so-called COVID certificate is currently required for access to them.
The advancement of the closing time of certain establishments and activities by one hour is determined by the unstoppable upward evolution of the infection, in the face of which the recommendation of scientists is unanimous that the most effective measures to prevent the transmission of the virus are, along with vaccination, maintaining social distance, wearing masks, observing hygiene standards, using ventilated and safe spaces, and avoiding massive population displacement.
CAPACITY MODULATION.
The rule modifies the maximum capacities established in subsections a), b), c), d), e), f) and h) of section 1 of article 28 of Decree Law 11/2021, of September 2, by which The legal health alert regime and the measures for the control and management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Canary Islands are established. These capacities are established as follows:
Hotel and restaurant activities, both those carried out in specific establishments for said purpose and in any establishment or activity that offers the service of food or drinks complementary to the main activity carried out, except for the exceptions expressly indicated and related to the services of the health, work and tourist accommodation centers: 75% in outdoor spaces and 33% in indoor spaces.
Cultural activity that is not considered a massive event, both that which takes place in closed cultural and artistic venues and establishments such as theaters, cinemas, music auditoriums, cultural centers, libraries, concert halls, exhibition halls, museums, of exhibitions or conferences or other facilities of a similar nature whose ordinary activity is cultural, such as that carried out in open-air public spaces, such as squares, parks or sports facilities: the maximum capacity allowed will be 75% in open-air spaces and 55% indoors.
Tasting of food products: 75% in outdoor spaces and 33% in indoor spaces.
Tourist accommodation establishments, in common areas: 50% in open-air spaces and 33% in interior spaces.
Establishments and commercial premises and professional service activities, open to the public, common areas of shopping centers and parks: 50% in outdoor spaces and 33% in indoor spaces.
Places of religious worship, wakes and burials: 50% in open-air spaces and 33% in interior spaces.
Academies, driving schools, non-regulated education centers and training centers: 50% in open-air spaces and 33% in interior spaces.
The capacities established in the remaining subsections of section 1 of the aforementioned article 28 remain in the same terms established in Decree Law 11/2021.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT CAPACITY
For regular public urban and metropolitan passenger transport, the agreement establishes a capacity of 75% and the busiest lines will be reinforced.
Likewise, regarding the discretionary public transport of passengers in passenger cars and rental vehicles with a driver, with up to nine seats including the driver, the maximum capacity will be 75%, unless they are people from the same group of stable coexistence, the The driver’s row of seats may not be occupied by any other user. All occupants must wear a mask and adequate air renewal will be guaranteed by opening windows and the outside air intake system. The vehicle’s interior air recirculation function must not be used.
SPORTS PRACTICE CAPACITY.
The norm also modulates the section of capacity and number of participants for federated sports practice, regional or island, outdoors or closed spaces and non-federated sports practice outdoors, which is allowed while ensuring the maintenance of interpersonal distance. of 2 meters whenever possible, with mandatory use of the mask. It is established that the number of participants in the competition will be determined in the specific sports regulations. In training, the sports capacity will be limited to 33%. Public capacity will be 50% in open spaces and 33% in closed spaces.
BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS.
The maximum capacity is set at 75% in closed spaces in commercial retail establishments of food, beverages, products and essential goods that are not considered large commercial establishments in the terms provided in article 41.1 of Legislative Decree 1/ 2012, of April 21, which approves the consolidated text of the Laws of Organization of the Commercial Activity of the Canary Islands and regulator of the commercial license, as well as in pharmaceutical establishments.
Adequate ventilation and/or air renewal must be guaranteed, the measures on the use of masks, maintenance of social distance and general hygiene measures and for the prevention and control of SARS-CoV-2 will be scrupulously observed, as well as the specific ones established for commercial establishments and premises and professional service activities open to the public in section 6 of Annex III of Decree Law 11/2021, of September 2, which establishes the legal health alert regime and the measures for the control and management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Canary Islands.
INTERINSULAR DISPLACEMENTS
In addition, the application of the section that establishes that travelers aged 12 or over from islands that are at alert level 4 who travel to other islands must prove the completion, within a maximum period of 48 hours, remains suspended. prior to arrival, a diagnostic test for active infection for SARS-CoV-2 with a negative result, except for the assumptions and exceptions contemplated in the regulation.
