Health rectifies and will allow travel from Lanzarote to La Graciosa without a Covid test during Holy Week

The Ministry affirms that it was included in the regulation by "mistake", since both islands are part of "a single epidemiological unit"

March 22 2021 (17:53 WET)
Updated in March 22 2021 (18:13 WET)
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The management of the Canarian Health Service has signed a specific modification with respect to the Order that determines the conditions and requirements to which the limitation of inter-island mobility in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands must be adjusted during Holy Week, specifically referring to trips between the islands of La Graciosa and Lanzarote.

The Ministry of Health points out that it was a "mistake" to consider La Graciosa as an independent island, since both are part of "a single epidemiological unit, so there is no need to differentiate between them".

Consequently, it announces that this point has been modified and, therefore, trips by residents between La Graciosa and Lanzarote will not require a negative Active Infection Diagnostic Test (PDIA).

"The resolution is effective from the signing of the same by the director of the SCS, without prejudice to its subsequent publication in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands", clarify from the Ministry.

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