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A realistic update on Gran Canaria
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By *ay68 OP Man
over a year ago
London |
The Canarian Weekly newspaper, which we all rely on, is reporting that Covid is once again "out of control". Most of the damage is being done in Tenerife, where everyone seems to be ignoring any rules about social distancing. But this has a huge impact on the viability of the Canaries in general as a tourist destination.
On the plus side, over 60% have had a first jab and over 40% have had both jabs, but it isn't the magic 70% that we are looking for!
Not yet anyway.
What is the feedback from people who are currently in Gran Canaria? |
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By *den_GCCouple
over a year ago
San Fernando, Gran Canaria |
"The Canarian Weekly newspaper, which we all rely on, is reporting that Covid is once again "out of control". Most of the damage is being done in Tenerife, where everyone seems to be ignoring any rules about social distancing. But this has a huge impact on the viability of the Canaries in general as a tourist destination.
On the plus side, over 60% have had a first jab and over 40% have had both jabs, but it isn't the magic 70% that we are looking for!
Not yet anyway.
What is the feedback from people who are currently in Gran Canaria? "
That 60% is increasing at about 0.6% per day. So in two weeks we're looking at 70%. The second jab typically lags by 3 weeks. So somewhere near the end of July.
Hospitalisations and deaths are low. This is because firstly the vaccine is having an effect and secondly most of the infections are amongst younger people.
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Read this on fco.gov site
"The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to Spain, but does not advise against all but essential travel to the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, based on the current assessment of COVID-19 risks." So why isn t caary islands on green list like balearics |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Read this on fco.gov site
"The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to Spain, but does not advise against all but essential travel to the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, based on the current assessment of COVID-19 risks." So why isn t caary islands on green list like balearics "
They use criteria for determining which list each country will be on
The percentage of vaccinated people;
The rate of infection.
The prevalence of variants; and
Their access to up-to-date scientific data and genome sequencing.
Some countries are better than others, so will be on the green list.
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By *den_GCCouple
over a year ago
San Fernando, Gran Canaria |
What is happening now is somewhat inevitable.
Previously they were asking the younger people to put their lives on hold because it put older people at risk. Now they are asking the younger people to put their lives on hold with the at risk demographic 100% vaccinated.
The data curve shows infections doing a u-turn just after 9 May when State of Alarm ended.
What does this mean for people in the UK? It means a lot of the places that made GC what it is (stalls in the Yumbo etc) won't be there when you return at the end of the year. This is short term however, it's dropping rent prices and providing opportunities for new entrepreneurs. We will bounce back in time.
That's just our view anyway... |
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By *den_GCCouple
over a year ago
San Fernando, Gran Canaria |
"Read this on fco.gov site
"The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to Spain, but does not advise against all but essential travel to the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, based on the current assessment of COVID-19 risks." So why isn t caary islands on green list like balearics
They use criteria for determining which list each country will be on
The percentage of vaccinated people;
The rate of infection.
The prevalence of variants; and
Their access to up-to-date scientific data and genome sequencing.
Some countries are better than others, so will be on the green list.
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Here's the irony.
The Canaries has really good data that was improving at a rate of knots up until 9 May. At this stage we were not seen separately from Mainland Spain.
Now the Canaries are evaluated from Mainland Spain we had an outbreak in Tenerife where Santa Cruz had the highest infection rate of anyone in the Spanish territories.
Unless we do something quick the next irony will be that double vaxxed people returning from amber countries won't need to quarantine.... and we will be red!
While this all sounds very negative, the death rate and serious hospitalisations is very low. The high rate of vaccinations has reduced covid to "just another flu" doing no more than the seasonal flu, which never stopped travel before.
Again just the way we see things. |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Read this on fco.gov site
"The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to Spain, but does not advise against all but essential travel to the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, based on the current assessment of COVID-19 risks." So why isn t caary islands on green list like balearics
They use criteria for determining which list each country will be on
The percentage of vaccinated people;
The rate of infection.
The prevalence of variants; and
Their access to up-to-date scientific data and genome sequencing.
Some countries are better than others, so will be on the green list.
Here's the irony.
The Canaries has really good data that was improving at a rate of knots up until 9 May. At this stage we were not seen separately from Mainland Spain.
Now the Canaries are evaluated from Mainland Spain we had an outbreak in Tenerife where Santa Cruz had the highest infection rate of anyone in the Spanish territories.
Unless we do something quick the next irony will be that double vaxxed people returning from amber countries won't need to quarantine.... and we will be red!
While this all sounds very negative, the death rate and serious hospitalisations is very low. The high rate of vaccinations has reduced covid to "just another flu" doing no more than the seasonal flu, which never stopped travel before.
Again just the way we see things."
Maybe it's time to evaluate each island seperately? I don't know what the answer is... |
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By *den_GCCouple
over a year ago
San Fernando, Gran Canaria |
"Read this on fco.gov site
"The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to Spain, but does not advise against all but essential travel to the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, based on the current assessment of COVID-19 risks." So why isn t caary islands on green list like balearics
They use criteria for determining which list each country will be on
The percentage of vaccinated people;
The rate of infection.
The prevalence of variants; and
Their access to up-to-date scientific data and genome sequencing.
Some countries are better than others, so will be on the green list.
Here's the irony.
The Canaries has really good data that was improving at a rate of knots up until 9 May. At this stage we were not seen separately from Mainland Spain.
Now the Canaries are evaluated from Mainland Spain we had an outbreak in Tenerife where Santa Cruz had the highest infection rate of anyone in the Spanish territories.
Unless we do something quick the next irony will be that double vaxxed people returning from amber countries won't need to quarantine.... and we will be red!
While this all sounds very negative, the death rate and serious hospitalisations is very low. The high rate of vaccinations has reduced covid to "just another flu" doing no more than the seasonal flu, which never stopped travel before.
Again just the way we see things.
Maybe it's time to evaluate each island seperately? I don't know what the answer is..."
The Canarian Government said in December already that they would never request this as the Canaries are seen as a brand.
Also infections are now starting to spiral in GC as well. Just a few weeks back we had an IA7 of 15 and now it's over 30 with 81 new cases reported yesterday. As our Tenerife friends pointed out there has been free travel between the islands 
The silver lining is that during "Non Pride" we had a 0.00 IA7 in San Bartolome de Tirajana. But now the large this large volume of tourists have gone home we have 15 cases in our municipal area. Had our problems occurred earlier, tourism would have received the blame and cast a cloud over visiting here. What this whole thing has shown is that tourism with tested people incoming are not the problem. |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Read this on fco.gov site
"The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to Spain, but does not advise against all but essential travel to the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, based on the current assessment of COVID-19 risks." So why isn t caary islands on green list like balearics
They use criteria for determining which list each country will be on
The percentage of vaccinated people;
The rate of infection.
The prevalence of variants; and
Their access to up-to-date scientific data and genome sequencing.
Some countries are better than others, so will be on the green list.
Here's the irony.
The Canaries has really good data that was improving at a rate of knots up until 9 May. At this stage we were not seen separately from Mainland Spain.
Now the Canaries are evaluated from Mainland Spain we had an outbreak in Tenerife where Santa Cruz had the highest infection rate of anyone in the Spanish territories.
Unless we do something quick the next irony will be that double vaxxed people returning from amber countries won't need to quarantine.... and we will be red!
While this all sounds very negative, the death rate and serious hospitalisations is very low. The high rate of vaccinations has reduced covid to "just another flu" doing no more than the seasonal flu, which never stopped travel before.
Again just the way we see things.
Maybe it's time to evaluate each island seperately? I don't know what the answer is...
The Canarian Government said in December already that they would never request this as the Canaries are seen as a brand.
Also infections are now starting to spiral in GC as well. Just a few weeks back we had an IA7 of 15 and now it's over 30 with 81 new cases reported yesterday. As our Tenerife friends pointed out there has been free travel between the islands
The silver lining is that during "Non Pride" we had a 0.00 IA7 in San Bartolome de Tirajana. But now the large this large volume of tourists have gone home we have 15 cases in our municipal area. Had our problems occurred earlier, tourism would have received the blame and cast a cloud over visiting here. What this whole thing has shown is that tourism with tested people incoming are not the problem. "
Oh dear..good luck to you all! X |
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