The Government of the Canary Islands has agreed to extend until January 10 the restriction measures affecting the island of Tenerife, which include, among other measures, the restriction of entries and exits from the island, the curfew at 10:00 p.m. or suspending all restaurant activity inside the premises, except to order take-out food.
This was announced at the press conference after the Governing Council by the spokesman for the Canary Islands Executive, Julio Pérez, who stated that although the number of infections has improved in the archipelago as a whole and is close to 50 cases of accumulated incidence in 7 days, in Tenerife the situation is only "stabilized".
According to Julio Pérez, this requires maintaining the extraordinary measures that came into force on December 18, extending the restrictions and prohibitions that are currently in force on the island. After January 10, the general regime would be applied again according to the different traffic lights.
In any case, he advanced that a monographic Governing Council will be held in the middle of next week to evaluate the evolution of the disease, and clarified that in the archipelago as a whole there is no extension of the restriction measures, because those that are in force were already in force until January 10.
Julio Pérez emphasized that he has "a lot of hope" that the measures will produce their effects in Tenerife and added that if the latest figures are looked at, everything points to an apparent reduction in cases, although he considers that this presumed stabilization of the data "must be taken with caution".
