SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The acting Canary Islands Government Council, in its session held this Thursday, has approved an agreement confirming the end of the validity of Law 2/2022, of June 6, which establishes the legal regime health alert and measures for the control and management of the covid-19 pandemic in the Canary Islands.
This termination agreed in the session of the Governing Council is taken after the declaration of the end of the health crisis situation caused by covid-19 at the national level, legally produced on July 5, 2023, in accordance with the Agreement of the Council of Ministers of the 4th of July.
This agreement, advanced at a press conference by the acting President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, will be published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC).
At a press conference, he indicated that it is “magnificent news” to end his term with the end of the health restrictions derived from the coronavirus pandemic and has assumed, by way of self-criticism, not having exceeded the figures for health waiting lists and waiting times despite the increase in staff and financial resources, something that has been attributed to the consequences of the pandemic.
Torres has valued the “commitment” and “responsibility” of Canarian society for respecting and complying with the restrictions in the most acute time of the pandemic, something that resulted in the Canary Islands being the autonomous community with the fewest deaths by number of inhabitants .
