The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, will request this Wednesday at the Conference of Presidents that masks be mandatory indoors and outdoors and that the 'Covid fund' be maintained in 2022 to cover health expenses and the "economic repercussions" derived from the new wave of the pandemic, given that the Canary Islands is the community most affected by the closure of tourist markets.
In statements to journalists after visiting the University Hospital of the Canary Islands (HUC), he pointed out that he will also propose that some legal framework be articulated for the autonomous communities in order to restrict mobility during the night, something that his Executive already tried in the summer but was rejected by the TSJC.
Torres has specified that he will make contributions in a "constructive" way, stressing that the Conference is positive and a "success" to make decisions at the gates of Christmas and with a sixth wave "that is growing" and is leaving "hard times".
The president, who has shown his support for the health community of the islands, has acknowledged that he is "concerned" about the sharp increase in infections in the archipelago, so he hopes that the courts will side with the Government with the mandatory use of the 'Covid certificate'.
In that line, he indicated that infections rise every time leisure and mobility increase, so he appealed to the "responsibility" of the population given that "the vaccine provides security but it is false" if one believes "that Covid is gone".
"Today it is difficult to bend the curve and the infections are a blow", he pointed out, but he stressed that five waves have already been overcome and this sixth one will also be overcome, valuing "the queues" that exist to vaccinate children.
