Lanzarote will remain at level 2 of health alert for Covid for at least one more week, according to the Canary Islands Government Council. In fact, Fuerteventura is the only island that is going to change level, dropping from 3 to 2, so that Gran Canaria and Tenerife remain at level 3.
"In Gran Canaria and Tenerife there are still some worrying data", said the Government spokesman, Julio Pérez, at a press conference. And, although he pointed out that "there are days when it seems that there is an improvement" in these two islands, "then the infections recover."
In this regard, he stressed the accumulated incidence at seven days in Tenerife, which in two weeks has gone from 60 to 83 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. "It is perhaps far from the numbers that have been seen in other communities and other countries, but we do not go down", he said, noting that "Gran Canaria is in the same figures."
The spokesman for the Canary Islands Government has also announced that the Ministry of Health is preparing "a kind of general review" of the table of measures against Covid. Thus, the current restrictions are expected to be modified soon. "We are going to do a kind of general review to incorporate results of the experience, things that we know we can correct, and also incorporate the observations that users send us," said Julio Pérez.
In this regard, he recalled that the Ministry of Health has established a specific technical table with the sectors in which the restrictions have a greater impact, such as hotels and similar, and said that there will be meetings "soon" to "correct or qualify some of the measures."
Likewise, the Government spokesman pointed out that the general table of measures "that we have to use from the end of the state of alarm, if it actually occurs within a couple of weeks" is going to be prepared, as the President of the Central Government, Pedro Sánchez, has been announcing, who ruled out extending it when its validity is met.
"The effects of vaccination are beginning to be noticed"
On the other hand, Pérez stressed that "the effects of vaccination seem to be starting to be noticed", because there are "fewer infections in the first group of vaccinated people", who are residents in nursing homes and their staff. "It would be conceivable that the same effects could occur in other groups," said the Government spokesman, expressing his "hope" that this will be the case.
With regard to vaccination, he also stressed that "between 16,000 and 17,000 people are being vaccinated daily", stating that if it could "double that amount" and "reach 30,000 daily" if more doses arrived. In this sense, he valued "positively" the announcement of the resumption of the rate of vaccine supplies.
"We have had scares with the AstraZeneca vaccine that will be compensated with an increase in Pfizer vaccines. This has begun to be noticed and also allows us to sustain our base, our support, our hope," concluded Julio Pérez.