The Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Blas Trujillo, has pointed out that this week, after the endorsement of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to the Janssen vaccine, the first doses of it will begin to be inoculated in the archipelago.
Currently, he added that the Canary Islands has more than 6,000 doses of Janssen and it is expected to have a "significant increase" of vaccines next week "not only from Janssen, but also from AstraZeneca and Pfizer". In this way, Trujillo has stressed that if the supplies are met, and he was "tremendously optimistic" about it, by the end of the summer it could be possible to have 70 percent of the population of the islands vaccinated.
In relation to this, he pointed out that in the Canary Islands the population with two doses, immunized, is above 6 percent, while with one dose it is 20 percent of the target population in the islands. To advance in these data, he indicated in statements to the Ser chain collected by Europa Press, this Tuesday more than 13,000 vaccines were put in place.
Trujillo has defended that the Canary Islands has a vaccination rate that "is practically the average of Spain", since so far he has stated that "more than 92 percent" of the doses received have been inoculated. "The only thing we are waiting for is for vaccines to arrive to put right and left," he said.
The community with the most open activity
On the other hand, the Canarian Minister of Health has defended that the archipelago has been the autonomous community that has had the "most" open activity, emphasizing that it has had "the most open economic activity than the rest".
In this sense, he alluded to the fact that the regional government has tried to promote economic activity with measures such as the requirement of a negative test to be able to go to a tourist accommodation or in the same the buffets are maintained indoors, although he has clarified that extending the closing hours of restaurants should be studied, since the British strain is currently circulating with which "you have to be quite cautious" due to its contagiousness.
In any case, he considered that the "great negative element" of the Canary Islands is that "tourists have not come" as a result of the pandemic.
Finally, on the possibility of lowering the alert levels on some islands, he pointed out that they should still study the data in the next few hours because "it is a more complex analysis than the mere fact that there is such and such a number of cases."
