Lanzarote's entry into phase 2 this Monday has meant the return to the beaches, where until now you could only go for a walk or do individual sports. Now, the people of Lanzarote can once again make use of all the beaches on the island, both to sunbathe and to take a dip, as long as the safety distances of two meters are respected with the rest of the users.
In the case of the Yaiza City Council, it had only announced the opening of one of its beaches, specifically the beach in the town of Playa Blanca. However, this only implies a "recommendation" to use that beach -which is where the City Council has already established the necessary surveillance and security measures-, but not that the rest of the beaches are closed. For its part, Arrecife, Tías and Teguise have formally announced the reopening of all.
"The town councils can decide to close a beach, but for that a decree has to be issued and until now no consistory on the island has done so", La Voz has been told from the Security and Emergency Consortium.
In fact, during the coordination meetings held last week with all the town councils, several raised their doubts about reopening some of the beaches -due to the difficulty of deploying the necessary resources in all of them-, but finally none has issued those closure decrees.
Thus, with the lifting of the national restriction that prevented swimming on all the beaches of the country due to the state of alarm, and since no specific orders for closure of any of them have been issued by the town councils, in reality all of them are now open to the public, although without services such as hammocks and toilets.
"What is done in some is to advise against swimming", specify both from the Consortium and from the Yaiza City Council, which has placed "no swimming" signs on several beaches, even with a fence at the entrance. However, this in practice would imply the same as a red flag, like the one that always flies on beaches such as Famara. That is to say, it is the swimmer who assumes the responsibility in case of entering the water.
However, most of the beaches on the island are already formally enabled and the rest are expected to be in the next few days or weeks, once the disinfection work is carried out and the presence of lifeguards is guaranteed, in the case of those that already had them.
