Cliona O'Flynn

There's so many questions that are being asked and haven't been answered yet.

Well, there is.

I mean, just this morning, about 20 minutes ago, the regional government spokesperson, a guy called Alfonso Cabello was on and he was detailing like at 12.57, we got an email from the Spanish health ministry saying we had to allow the ship to come in at 6 a.m.

We've been told again.

So now the Fernando Clavico has insisted, has called for a meeting with Pedro Sanchez, the Spanish prime minister, because he is saying exactly what you're saying.

We need enough information to be able to reassure the local population that there will be no danger of infection when these passengers arrive.

online, I've been looking and talking to people, say the public who are here.

Now, there doesn't seem to be levels of concern rising, say on social media yet, but possibly because the confirmation only came through last night that the boats would be coming to Tenerife.

In fact, I got more calls from my daughter in Dublin, who's Canarian, saying, Mom, what's going on?

Why is that ship going to the Canary Islands?

Than I have had from people living here in Tenerife at the moment.

And there is a slight undertone, you know, these shades of COVID perhaps, even though all of the medical experts are saying this virus is not at the level of transmission that COVID had.

But we remember the ships that were, you know, kind of abandoned almost at sea for weeks once COVID started to hit certain cruise ships.

And I think there will be that sense of,

You know, are we looking at something similar once the ship begins to approach these islands?

Because it will be three or four days before it gets here.

Well, last night we weren't sure.

It was said that there was an air ambulance on the way.

And then again, we had spokespeople from here saying, well, that wasn't going to happen.

But then about a half an hour ago,