All Covid Restrictions Lifted on Thursday

Canary Islands

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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 the technical criteria, "all the restrictions established by the coronavirus pandemic will be suspended ." coronavirus".

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

For this reason, the decision that will be adopted on Thursday will be a "temporary suspension" of the measures with a general nature and at the regional level that, if circumstances worsen, "may be reactivated",

Ángel Víctor Torres has emphasized that, without a doubt, this suspension of the rules is leading the Canary Islands "towards a new stage of more normality". "We will continue to focus, as we have done in 2021, on improving the data of Canarian public health ."

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

This was possible, recognised Ángel Víctor Torres, thanks to the "immense planning work at complex times for the health sector".

He also highlighted that surgical activity increased compared 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", affirmed the president of the Canary Islands, who has assumed the commitment that from next summer "three new multi-purpose buildings will be available in the annexes of the hospital of the Candelaria, in Tenerife; the Juan Carlos I, in Gran Canaria, and the Molina Orosa, in Lanzarote, in addition to the complete rehabilitation of several hospitalisation floors in the HUC".

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