The president of the Canary Islands Government, Ángel Víctor Torres, stated this Wednesday that his Executive will arbitrate mechanisms of "hardness" for Holy Week in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus, although he "does not" foresee a perimeter closure.
Torres has admitted that Holy Week is "very worrying" after all the previous holidays have produced an "upsurge in infections", hence he has stated that the Canary Islands Government "will arbitrate a mechanism of hardness", since he "doesn't" want it to end "with an upsurge because then the opening of the tourist market is put at risk".
However, during an interview on a radio station picked up by Europa Press, he qualified that "another thing is the perimeter closure" and added that in the Canary Islands, in principle, "the numbers don't add up" for it.
In any case, Torres has pointed out that there will "always be a number of infections" but it is necessary to "reduce or maintain it".
Canary Islands needs the government to make a "significant investment"
On the other hand, in relation to unemployment data and the need for the Canary Islands to have a rescue plan, Torres has assured that the central government is being asked because it needs "urgent actions" and a "significant investment, which materializes" by the Executive led by Pedro Sánchez.
Thus, regarding the new aid plan recently announced by Pedro Sánchez, he pointed out that, as with the funds coming from Europe, the tourist communities of the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands are the ones that have to "have specific funds", since the hotel and tourism sectors are the "most affected".
