The President of the Canary Islands Government, Ángel Víctor Torres, has denied that the Executive is not following the epidemiological reports when making the decision to raise or lower the alert levels in the Islands, and has criticised that some parties are trying to confuse the Canarian society "permanently".
"We do neither more nor less than expressly follow what the scientific reports say", the president said at a press conference, adding that when the Government has to take tough decisions or restrictions, it does so with the sole objective of "bending the curve, now in Tenerife as it happened before in Gran Canaria, Lanzarote or Fuerteventura".
According to Torres, "some are mistaken about the objective and look for enemies where there are none. The only enemy we have at the moment is the virus and if we don't focus on what we have to do is to lower the curve in the islands that are bad, we are aiming at the wrong target".
Ángel Víctor Torres said that to recover the economy "there is nothing worse than increasing infections" and warned that the Canary Islands can leave "immediately" the green lists of some countries if infections are not reduced "with a lot of vaccination but also with maintaining restrictions, especially in the population that is not vaccinated in the islands that are worse off".
Regarding the criticisms from the hotel and restaurant sector, he assured that the Government of the Canary Islands will continue listening to them to find "shared" formulas that "are the best possible" because the objective is that the infections "stop and we bend the curve as we have done in all the preceding months".
