Canary Islands added to UK quarantine list

jaybeetoo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55263038

welshmoneylover

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welshmoneylover

Some people are going to be disappointed over Christmas y this rule

DCFC79

welshmoneylover said:

Some people are going to be disappointed over Christmas y this rule

Yes possibly but it is what it is.
If its needed thenso be it, anyone wanting to travel there they need to follow the rules.

Yahoo_Mail

DCFC79 said:

welshmoneylover said:

Some people are going to be disappointed over Christmas y this rule

Yes possibly but it is what it is.
If its needed thenso be it, anyone wanting to travel there they need to follow the rules.

It's not really needed though, is it?  The highest rate is on Tenerife, which is still only 96 per 100000.  Add in the other islands where the rate is much lower and you're probably at less than half the current UK rate of 159 per 100000

Thrugelmir

Yahoo_Mail said:

DCFC79 said:

welshmoneylover said:

Some people are going to be disappointed over Christmas y this rule

Yes possibly but it is what it is.
If its needed thenso be it, anyone wanting to travel there they need to follow the rules.

It's not really needed though, is it?  The highest rate is on Tenerife, which is still only 96 per 100000.  Add in the other islands where the rate is much lower and you're probably at less than half the current UK rate of 159 per 100000

Not particularly relevant as testing regimes are totally different.  What's the positivity % from tests undertaken? What's the trend? 

eskbanker

Thrugelmir said:

Yahoo_Mail said:

DCFC79 said:

welshmoneylover said:

Some people are going to be disappointed over Christmas y this rule

Yes possibly but it is what it is.
If its needed thenso be it, anyone wanting to travel there they need to follow the rules.

It's not really needed though, is it?  The highest rate is on Tenerife, which is still only 96 per 100000.  Add in the other islands where the rate is much lower and you're probably at less than half the current UK rate of 159 per 100000

Not particularly relevant as testing regimes are totally different.  What's the positivity % from tests undertaken? What's the trend? 

According to the stats published at https://www.gobiernodecanarias.org/principal/coronavirus/acceso_datos.html, the positive rate has been about 9% across the territory but 10-17% on Tenerife over the past week or so, both of which are roughly double where they were the previous week.

Aranyani

Yahoo_Mail said:

DCFC79 said:

welshmoneylover said:

Some people are going to be disappointed over Christmas y this rule

Yes possibly but it is what it is.
If its needed thenso be it, anyone wanting to travel there they need to follow the rules.

It's not really needed though, is it?  The highest rate is on Tenerife, which is still only 96 per 100000.  Add in the other islands where the rate is much lower and you're probably at less than half the current UK rate of 159 per 100000

Then surely we should avoid travelling there because of the risk we pose to them!  

Westin

Aranyani said:

Yahoo_Mail said:

DCFC79 said:

welshmoneylover said:

Some people are going to be disappointed over Christmas y this rule

Yes possibly but it is what it is.
If its needed thenso be it, anyone wanting to travel there they need to follow the rules.

It's not really needed though, is it?  The highest rate is on Tenerife, which is still only 96 per 100000.  Add in the other islands where the rate is much lower and you're probably at less than half the current UK rate of 159 per 100000

Then surely we should avoid travelling there because of the risk we pose to them!  

Fair point. Unfortunately some will however think and believe that using their right to access and use a cheap RyanAir flight to Tenerife is all that matters.

JamoLew

Yahoo_Mail said:

DCFC79 said:

welshmoneylover said:

Some people are going to be disappointed over Christmas y this rule

Yes possibly but it is what it is.
If its needed thenso be it, anyone wanting to travel there they need to follow the rules.

It's not really needed though, is it?  The highest rate is on Tenerife, which is still only 96 per 100000.  Add in the other islands where the rate is much lower and you're probably at less than half the current UK rate of 159 per 100000

I think the point is to try and prevent that rate going up with the inevitable mass influx of people who "really must get their xmas sun" 

I don't agree with everything Hancock says/does -- but I do with his "just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you have to" comment yesterday

DCFC79

Yahoo_Mail said:

DCFC79 said:

welshmoneylover said:

Some people are going to be disappointed over Christmas y this rule

Yes possibly but it is what it is.
If its needed thenso be it, anyone wanting to travel there they need to follow the rules.

It's not really needed though, is it?  The highest rate is on Tenerife, which is still only 96 per 100000.  Add in the other islands where the rate is much lower and you're probably at less than half the current UK rate of 159 per 100000

Im not in a position to comment on that, you've seen the stats.
Thanks for posting the stats.