The Canary Islands Government Council has agreed this Thursday that nightlife venues can extend their opening hours, provided they ask for the Covid certificate from both their customers and their employees. The measure will come into effect from midnight on Friday to Saturday and, in the case of Lanzarote, means that the opening can be extended until 4 am.
It was the sector associations that raised this proposal to the regional Executive, as a way to extend their hours. In this way, they committed to request this Covid certificate "voluntarily", given that the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands rejected that it was mandatory.
Now, discos, bars and karaokes that wish to join this voluntary extension must prove that their employees and customers have the vaccination certificate against Covid-19 with more than 14 days in advance, that they have passed the disease or that they have a diagnostic test of active infection with a negative result, with a maximum advance of 48 hours and without self-diagnosis tests being valid.
Until this Thursday, the islands in level 1 -in which Lanzarote is located- could open until 3 in the morning and in level 2 until 2, and now it will be extended in both until 4.
As for those that are in level 3 -currently only Fuerteventura-, their current schedule ended at 1 and now extends until 3, provided that the premises commit to request that certificate.
The only level that remains unchanged, with a maximum schedule until 1 am, is level 4, although currently there is no island in the Canary Islands at that level.
