Canary Islands to accept antigen tests for UK tourists
The Canary Islands will accept antigen tests for tourists, when the UK’s second lockdown is lifted later this week and people will be able to travel again.
The newspaper Canarian Weekly reports the island’s president, Ángel Víctor Torres, has confirmed the Ministry of Health and the Council is finalising the agreement to accept antigen tests for tourists from risk countries.
He told a press conference that a report by Hospital de La Candelaria in Tenerife ‘has conclusive scientific proof that the antigen tests with which they have worked, have all the scientific compliments to be able to measure up to health security required’.
Torres said the government aims to have a decree by tomorrow, Tuesday, 1 December 1, so that it is actively in place for when travel is allowed again from the UK from next weekend.
He added that there is ‘still a great desire for people to come to the islands’.
Since the Canary Islands regulations started on 14 November, requiring PCR or antigen testing for tourists travelling to the islands, only one positive has been detected in almost three weeks, Torres said.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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