“The Government believes that the time has come to limit mobility inside public establishments of all kinds” and “to link mobility to the availability of the Covid certificate”. This was announced by the spokesman of the regional Executive, Julio Pérez, during the press conference after the Council of Government this Thursday.
For the moment, he has advanced that they are studying how it will be carried out, in order to “try to make it impossible to access the interior of public establishments without a certificate of immunity”.
“It is being carried out with relative success in other territories”, he pointed out, comparing it with the test required for tourists who are going to stay in an accommodation establishment on the islands.
In the case of the measure that is being considered now, it would require to have been vaccinated or to have a PCR or a negative antigen test to be able to access places such as a restaurant or a store.
“There are more than half a million people who have already downloaded the Covid certificate in the Canary Islands”, stressed the Government spokesman, who considers that this is “a proof of principle that it is relatively easy” to do so.
What they intend is that the certificate is also “a kind of internal passport in the community”, although the details have not yet been defined. “This measure will be adopted in another Governing Council, which if it has to meet on an extraordinary basis will do so, because the situation requires it”, Julio Pérez advanced. Regarding where exactly that certificate would be required, he pointed out that it is also pending to be specified.
For his part, the Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo, has defended that they are trying to “adapt the whole set of measures to this new epidemiological situation”. In this regard, he has advanced that they hope that rapid tests can soon be purchased in pharmacies, which could also be accepted to access the premises if this measure is implemented.
In addition, during the press conference, both Trujillo and Julio Pérez have reiterated the Government's decision to appeal to the Supreme Court the order of the TSJC that has not endorsed the imposition of the curfew on the islands in alert level 3 and 4, and have defended the need for this restriction, not only to avoid street drinking but also meetings in homes of non-cohabiting people until late at night.
