SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has supported the need to regain the mandatory use of the mask outdoors given the dimensions that the sixth wave of COVID-19 is acquiring in the country, as stated has raised in the Conference of Presidents called this afternoon by President Sánchez.
He has also asked parents for an effort by authorizing the vaccination of their children under 12 years of age, since the vaccine in this age group is voluntary, and advocated the intensification of the application of the third dose to all people who they already have a complete vaccination schedule.
At a press conference after participating in the Conference of Presidents, Ángel Víctor highlighted the importance of vaccination, which this December 27 will mark one year since it began and which has allowed more than 38 million people to be vaccinated in our country .
The Canarian president has highlighted that thanks to vaccines today it is possible to “live and fight” with COVID, even with the omicron variant, without registering the data of last year, when there was a greater occupation in ICUs, more hospital admissions and more affection with respect to the positives.
Torres indicated that the lowest cumulative incidence in the Canary Islands is in the population over 80 years old (188.99 positives per 100,000 inhabitants) and the highest in young people between 20 and 29 years old (1,394 positives per 100,000 inhabitants).
Therefore, he considered essential “to put all the resources” that are necessary, including increasing the number of doses and opening the vaccination points on holidays at Christmas, to encourage people who are part of this age group to get vaccinated.
He also called for an effort on fathers and mothers to vaccinate their children, in order to have as many vaccinated as possible, because “the higher the vaccination, the less risk of entering hospitals and losing lives.”
LEGAL HARMONIZATION AND HEALTH CORRIDORS.
Ángel Víctor Torres has also shared the need for the mandatory use of the mask outdoors and has also suggested that, given the possible decisions that the different Autonomous Communities may make, there is a “legal harmonization” throughout the country so that there are no positions different by the Superior Courts of Justice (TSJ).
Likewise, it has requested the President of the Government that, taking into account the dependence that the Canary Islands have on the service sector and the tourism sector, that there be a covid fund and also direct aid to companies, since the Islands are currently in the months high season and there may be a relevant effect on the economy as a result of COVID-19.
In the same way, it has demanded that the Archipelago be able to maintain health tourism corridors with the issuing countries, since in the Canary Islands there is a “strict” control at the airports. In this regard, Torres highlighted that only in the last week, of the 10,345 positive cases reported in the Islands, 49 have been due to imported cases detected at airports.
Along the same lines, he pointed out that according to a report by the Promotur Observatory, the number of positive tourists has been declining, just 63%, which means that in the last week the percentage of positives coming from abroad is only 0 , 5%, “which shows that community transmission is taking place in the Canary Islands due to the movement, the omicron variant and, fundamentally, in the Canarian population.”
“DEFINITIVE DEATH”.
On the other hand, Ángel Víctor Torres has taken advantage of the Conference to thank all the regional presidents for their “support, affection and sensitivity” with the island of La Palma, at the same time that he has transmitted to them that on December 24 he can be the date on which the “definitive death” of the volcano eruption is certified.
He also thanked the entire Government of Spain, all its ministers and President Sánchez himself, who “at all times have been by the side of the palm trees and palm trees.”
The president stressed that the end of the eruption will be “magnificent news” because it has been “tremendously hard” weeks and months. “Now we have the reconstruction of the island ahead of us, which we will do hand in hand, with the unity of action of all public institutions,” Torres told the conference participants.
