The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, praised this Tuesday the work of controlling the coronavirus carried out by the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, achieved by taking "measures".
"This is what needs to be done," the minister asserted about the Canary archipelago and the management of the regional government during the press conference this Tuesday after the Coronavirus Monitoring Committee.
The minister remarked that the Canary Islands is, according to the information published this Tuesday, at "an accumulated incidence of 87.26 cases per 100,000 inhabitants" in the last 14 days, when "a few days ago it was at much higher incidences".
"You will allow me, the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands is doing a magnificent job," Illa highlighted during the press conference in which he asked to be "very prudent" with the situation in the Community of Madrid and urged to "always act with sanitary criteria, as all the countries around us do, which are taking forceful measures to bend the curve."
"We are not going to enter into politicizations or sterile controversies, we are not going to enter into reproaches. We are only going to talk about health. There is a public health problem that must be addressed with public health criteria," Illa pointed out, referring to Madrid.
Illa insisted that "the only thing" that matters to the Ministry of Health is "public health." "Public health is not negotiable," he insisted. "We do not want citizens in the ICUs. We think a lot about the health workers, about the families who have sick people and, therefore, this leads us to say that we must act in a health key," he insisted.
