On Sunday the Santiago Martin pavilion is open for 24 hours from 8am so that anyone aged between 40 and 59 years old that hasn’t yet been vaccinated, can just turn up with their health card and have the Janssen single dose vaccine without an appointment. This service is available for the first 12,000 people that turn up and is just one of the protocols put in place to help bend the curve of contagion in Tenerife.
For those who don’t know, the Pabellon Santiago Martin is the round sports and entertainment venue by junction 6 of the TF-5 motorway close to the university hospital, and you can go any time between 8am on Sunday morning and 8am on Monday morning.
In addition to this there are mass screenings this weekend of people between 18 and 45 years old in Santa Cruz, la Laguna and Granadilla because they are the three areas with the highest incidence of the virus in Tenerife, and the SCS are implementing new kits for detection of possible variants of the virus.
Yesterday the Ministry of Health announced that the Delta variant, previously known as the Indian variant, now accounts for 10% of new cases and its presence in the Canary Islands has tripled in a week. As Blas Trujillo explained yesterday: “Two weeks ago the alpha was 76.6% (British variant), the beta (South African variant) was irrelevant, and the delta was 3.1%. Now the alpha is already 85.8% but the delta has increased to 10.1%, which could explain the increase in cases in Gran Canaria, and why the virus is much more active in Tenerife.”
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced yesterday that the regional Security Board will meet today to analyze the situation of the pandemic in the Archipelago, especially in Tenerife, to apply a stronger hand to the violators of the measures against the pandemic in force today in the Islands.
