The mayor of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, has publicly asked the Canary Islands Government to move Lanzarote and La Graciosa to Covid alert level 1, as she believes that "the positive trend of both islands has been consolidating in terms of pandemic incidence data during the last weeks."
For the top municipal official of the Popular Party, the decision adopted by the Canary Islands Government "does not seem to respond to objective health criteria, especially if we see that there are other island territories that have been in phase 1 for several weeks with very similar figures, and even sometimes higher, than those of Lanzarote”, as is the case of Fuerteventura.
“As a matter of prudence, we have patiently waited to see the evolution of the accumulated this week, but it is obvious that there are no reasoned reasons that justify the fact that we are still stuck at this level today”, says the mayor of Arrecife.
Astrid Pérez emphasizes the "economic damages" that this decision entails “among small and medium-sized local businesses, especially in the restaurant and nightlife sectors, which have endured as they could all this time, accumulating losses and more losses until reaching a truly unsustainable situation”.
The mayor affirms that the decision to keep the island at level 2 for another week "has fallen like a bucket of cold water on the good expectations that were foreseen for Lanzarote from the point of view of economic recovery in this summer season." “Without a doubt, it is a very hard blow for the city of Arrecife and, in the absence of epidemiological arguments, it is totally unjustified”,  says Astrid Pérez.
