Intersindical Canaria (IC) warned this Monday that the coronavirus pandemic "is about to get out of control" in Tenerife, so it requests a "tightening" of the measures and a return to 'Phase II', with severe restrictions on mobility and capacity of commercial activity.
In addition, it criticizes in a note the "lack of coherence" of the Government of the Canary Islands with a behavior that "has been to work on accomplished facts, applying greater value to saving a certain type of economic model than to people".
Along those lines, it points out that after a "hasty de-escalation" in the month of June, in the middle of the month of July "we fully enter the second wave and once again, in the name of saving the economy, we arrive late with the application of containment measures".
As a consequence, it remarks that in Tenerife the pandemic is about to "collapse" public health services, which are "under-equipped", and given this situation, "the approach is two-headed".
On the one hand, they comment, "citizens are held responsible for the failure of the measures and, on the other hand, at the same time, the possibility of reducing the control requirements through PCR for tourists is being managed with the Government to promote mobility towards our islands".
On the other hand, they continue, "a curfew is implemented, necessary, of course, and at the same time there is no reduction in capacity in large shopping centers".
From Intersindical they make a call to the citizens to comply with the rules of social distancing, hygiene, ventilation and use of masks, but, at the same time, it criticizes the messages that "try to subordinate health to the economy and to quasi-normalize figures of affected people of extreme gravity, which are the authentic breeding ground that favors social disobedience of the most basic rules".
For this reason, they appeal for a tightening of the measures, but not to "save Christmas", but to "save lives" and "cushion" the impact of the third wave that will arrive "fully" in the second half of January of next year.
These new measures, in their opinion, involve returning to 'Phase II' of the first state of alarm, with severe restrictions on mobility and capacity of commercial activity.
