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Canary Islands are scrapping all Covid restrictions in time for the Easter holidays
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The Canary Islands are set to suspend all Covid travel restrictions just in time for the Easter holidays.
The islands within the Canaries – which include Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria – have been on varying alert levels since the start of the pandemic, with each island maintaining different rules and restrictions.
This impacted holidaymakers in a variety of ways, ranging from bar and restaurant opening hours, occupation levels and how many people could sit together at tables.
But this week, it has been announced that all restrictions across the islands will be dropped ahead of the Easter holidays.
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President Ángel Víctor Torres made the announcement on Tuesday during the annual Canarian debate, where he confirmed that, from tomorrow (March 24th) the Governing Council ‘will suspend all Covid restrictions’ on the islands.
The suspension of these restrictions will mean a return to 100% capacity for restaurants, bars and other venues both indoors and outdoors.
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This will also apply to all cultural activities, sport, shows, leisure and entertainment facilities, as well as children and youth camps.
Unvaccinated Brits will also be permitted to visit any of the islands.
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However, President Torres stressed that this would be a temporary measure, and that rules would be reinstated should the health situation worsen again.
Torres said: “It is not the end of the pandemic, of course not, we will remain vigilant.”
He added that the decision was a ‘new stage of more normality’ for society thanks to administrations having ‘more tools’ to deal with the virus and control new variants.
This comes just one week after the UK dropped all Covid travel restrictions, including the requirement for Passenger Locator Forms (PLFs), mandatory face masks on airplanes and negative Covid tests for unvaccinated travellers.