SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 18. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, through the General Directorate of Public Health, has activated health risk notices between July 19 and 23 in different municipalities of the islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma and Fuerteventura.
On these dates there is a forecast of simultaneous overcoming of the threshold temperatures: 32 degrees maximum and 24 minimum, established in the Preventive Action Plan for the Effects of Excessive Temperatures on Health.
There will be a red warning (high risk) in Gran Canaria from July 19 to 23 in Santa Lucía de Tirajana. And orange warning (medium risk) in Gran Canaria from July 20 to 23 in La Aldea de San Nicolás, Artenara, Mogán, San Bartolomé de Tirajana and Tejeda, and from July 20 to 22 in Agüimes, Ingenio, Valsequillo and Vega de Saint Matthew; and in Tenerife from July 20 to 22 in Arona, Granadilla de Abona and San Miguel de Abona.
There will be a yellow warning (low risk) in Gran Canaria, on July 20 and 21, in Santa Brígida; in Tenerife, on July 20 and 21, in Adeje; on July 21 and 22 in Fasnia, Güímar and Vilaflor, and on July 21 in Arico, La Orotava and Santiago del Teide; in La Palma, on July 21 in Breña Alta, Fuencaliente and Tazacorte, and in Fuerteventura, on July 21 in Betancuria, Pájara and Tuineje.
The General Directorate of Public Health informs the Vice-Ministry of Social Rights of the Government of the Canary Islands and the municipalities, through the Canarian Federation of Municipalities (FECAM), of the areas affected by the forecast of simultaneous exceedance of threshold temperatures and sends them the reminder of the measures they must take on those days to protect the health of the most fragile members of their community.
