Torres announces that health restrictions due to the coronavirus will be suspended on Thursday

The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced this Tuesday in the plenary session of the Regional Parliament that next Thursday, at the meeting of the Governing Council, and following technical criteria, "all restrictions established by the coronavirus pandemic will be suspended."

During his first speech during the debate on the state of Canarian nationality, Ángel Víctor Torres acknowledged that "it is not the end of the pandemic." "Of course not, so we will remain vigilant," he said.

Therefore, the decision to be adopted on Thursday will be a "temporary suspension" of the measures of a general nature and of an autonomous nature that, if circumstances worsen, "can be reactivated," according to the President of the Canary Islands.

Ángel Víctor Torres emphasized that, without a doubt, this suspension of the rules leads the Canary Islands "towards a new stage of greater normality." "We will continue to focus, as we did in 2021, on improving the data of the Canarian public health system."

Because, Ángel Víctor Torres continued, last year in the Canary Islands, despite the pandemic, "91,542 surgical interventions, 4.2 million consultations, more than one million diagnostic tests or ten million consultations in Primary Care" were carried out.

That was possible, Ángel Víctor Torres acknowledged, thanks to the "immense planning work in complex moments for the health sector."

He also highlighted that surgical activity increased with respect to 2020 "by 36.7%." "After the application of the Aborda Plan, which we presented in February 2021 to reduce waiting lists, with 200 million euros for two years," he pointed out.

"And this will be a decisive year for the improvement of health infrastructures," said the President of the Canary Islands, who has made the commitment that from next summer "three new multipurpose buildings will be available in the annexes of the Candelaria Hospital, in Tenerife; of the Juan Carlos I, in Gran Canaria, and of the Molina Orosa, in Lanzarote, in addition to the complete rehabilitation of several hospitalization floors in the HUC."