Despite the fact that the fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic has already begun to subside in the Canary Islands, the ICUs have reached their highest number of Covid patients and the greatest amount of healthcare pressure since the pandemic began.
Yesterday, the Ministry of Health notified five more deaths of people with the virus, three in Tenerife and two in La Palma. In La Palma two women aged 88 and 64 died of Covid, while in Tenerife the disease ended the lives of two men aged 77 and 27 and a woman aged 47. They also confirmed that the 27-year-old young man and the 64-year-old woman didn’t suffer from any previous pathologies.
The death of this young male is the third that has been registered in the Canary Islands in people between 20 and 29 years old with coronavirus. In the 0 and 9-year-old age group, there have also been three deaths associated with the virus since the start of the pandemic; two in minors who suffered previous pathologies and that of an injured child who turned out to be infected. Between 30 and 39 years old, nine people have died of coronavirus. In the age group of 40 to 49 years, the virus has been implicated in 24 deaths, while 59 infected people were between 50 and 59 years old.
THE PANDEMIC IN FIGURES:
107 people with respirators: The Canary Islands ICUs yesterday reached the maximum level of Covid patients during all of the pandemic.
102 infected in ICU: Tenerife bears the greatest pressure with 59 infected in critical condition, and in Gran Canaria, there are 39.
Incidence rates are down: The infection rate yesterday stood at 165 cases over seven days, 75 points less than last Thursday.
15,569 active cases: There are currently 15,008 people on the islands in home isolation.
The octogenarian population has been the most affected by the coronavirus with 415 (47%) of the deaths registered in the Canary Islands. In second place for their vulnerability to the virus are people between 70 and 79 years old, with 229 deaths, followed by those between 60 and 69 years old, with 127 deaths. In the Canary Islands, 869 people have died from Covid related deaths, 36 of them died in July, and 45 so far in August.
So far, 87,115 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the Canary Islands, with 529 new cases registered yesterday; 35% less than last Thursday. Tenerife registered 252 new positives; Gran Canaria, 223; Lanzarote, 26; Fuerteventura, 23; La Palma, 3; and El Hierro and La Gomera both had one.
