The Government of the Canary Islands announced this Thursday that it is studying the implementation of its own additional regulations for the so-called 'new normality', after the state of alarm ends, which regulates circumstances derived from the coronavirus in areas such as, at least, beaches, parties, ports and airports.
"It may be convenient for us to dictate others for many economic activities," remarked the spokesperson for the autonomous executive, Julio Pérez, in a press conference. In this regard, the Governing Council has asked the ministries to determine in each area which activities might require exceptional regulation.
And then, Pérez acknowledged, "we will see if the de-escalation is done and brought forward" or if the Canary Islands chooses to end the state of alarm with the rest of the country on June 21. The areas that the Canary Islands believes it could regulate in principle are "the beach, parties and port and airport controls".
Pérez also said that the Governing Council of the Canary Islands has had a "prolonged debate" on the "way to establish health controls in ports and airports" for foreigners.
Canary Islands "would prefer" tourists to come with the test done
The regional executive has also reiterated that it would prefer tourists to come from origin with the test done and negative, but admitted that if this were not the case, they are considering doing it upon arrival in the Canary Islands, although nothing has been specified so far, when there is little more than a week left to enter the "new normality". "Ideally," Pérez clarified, "they would come with a test done at origin in the 72 hours prior to the trip".
This would lead, he continued, to a tourist who tested positive having to spend quarantine on the islands or return to their country. Pérez said that thermographic cameras have been installed this Thursday in four airports in the Canary Islands and that it remains to be determined "how it works, how the controls are done and who does them".
In addition, he explained that the Executive is studying aid for workers who return from the ERTE with worse conditions than before the coronavirus, as well as for domestic workers.
