The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has supported recovering the mandatory use of masks outdoors and has also asked parents to make an effort by authorizing the vaccination of their children under 12 years of age, since the vaccine in this age group is voluntary.
In a press conference after participating in the Conference of Presidents, Ángel Víctor highlighted the importance of vaccination, which this December 27 will mark one year since it began and which has allowed more than 38 million people to be vaccinated in our country.
The Canarian president has highlighted that thanks to vaccines today we can "live with and fight" COVID, even with the ómicron variant, without registering the data from last year, when there was a greater occupancy in the ICUs, more hospital admissions and more affectation regarding the positives.
Torres indicated that the lowest accumulated incidence in the Canary Islands is in the population over 80 years of age (188.99 positives per 100,000 inhabitants) and the highest in young people between 20 and 29 years of age (1,394 positives per 100,000 inhabitants).
For this reason, he considered it essential to "put all the resources" that are necessary to promote vaccination in this age group, and also asked parents to make an effort to vaccinate their children, in order to have the highest number of vaccinated people possible, because "the more vaccination, the less risk of entering hospitals and losing lives."
"DEFINITIVE DEATH".
On the other hand, Ángel Víctor Torres has taken advantage of the Conference to thank all the regional presidents for their "support, affection and sensitivity" with the island of La Palma, while also conveying to them that the next December 24 may be the date on which the "definitive death" of the volcano's eruption is certified. He also thanked the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for his involvement with the island.
