The Canary Islands will no longer demand, predictably from next week, a PCR or antigen test for travelers arriving on the islands and who are previously vaccinated against Covid 19 or who have had the disease.
The Canarian Executive spokesperson, Julio Pérez, has indicated in the press conference after the Governing Council, that the The Ministry of Health will shortly specify in an order the conditions that travelers must meet referring to issues such as the doses given or how to prove that the disease has passed.
Pérez has stressed that the goal is for this change to take effect on monday and he recalled that until now to enter the Canary Islands it was mandatory to bring a negative test of suffering from Covid 19, which in the case of residents was free, an issue that, according to the Government spokesman, remains.
As for the international travelers, the spokesman for the Government of the Canary Islands has indicated that it is a competence of the central government and has specified that President Pedro Sánchez has announced a change in the requirements, which will be adopted on the fly by the Canary Islands. .
On evolution of the pandemic in the Archipelago, Pérez has considered that there is a general downward evolution of infections that allow Gran Canaria go down to level 1 in protection measures while Tenerife and Lanzarote must be kept at level 2.
It has specified that although in these two islands the evolution is also positive, there are indicators that advise them to continue at a level 2 in terms of protection measures.
Regarding vaccination, Pérez stressed that there are already 300,000 people in the Canary Islands with the complete schedule and more than 700,000 have some dose.
Regarding the use of vaccines, the spokesperson has indicated that if the AstraZeneca, The Canary Islands are in the middle of Spain and in the case of this vaccine, there has been a greater delay due to the decisions regarding the second dose since the Canarian population is younger than that of other Spanish territories-
However, he has insisted that the purpose of achieving herd immunity is maintained sometime in the summer but he did not want to specify a specific date.
Has anticipated that 650,000 doses of vaccine will arrive in the next few days and he recalled that the appointment system launched this week through a website will make it possible to quote 250,000 people who have registered.
Pérez has clarified that this citation system does not alter the estimated vaccination order by age groups.
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