The Ministry of Health provisionally confirmed 135 new cases of coronavirus yesterday, taking the total number of accumulated cases in the Canary Islands to 27,617 and 543 new cases since New Years Eve, the majority through family and social gatherings.
Since New Years Eve (Thursday) there have been 14 deaths in the Canary Islands, 13 of them in Tenerife, one of these, as reported yesterday, is a 21-year-old woman with no previous pathologies and belonging to a family outbreak, meaning that 425 people have now lost their lives.
Since Thursday, almost 30% of the target population (ie residents and staff of nursing homes) marked for this first stage of vaccination, have already been vaccinated against Covid-19.
In total 4,593 people have already been vaccinated, as follows:
Tenerife: 2,069
Gran Canaria, 1,300
La Palma: 530
Lanzarote: 325
La Gomera: 190
Fuerteventura: 99
El Hierro: 80
New cases in the Canary Islands were as follows:
Tenerife: 74
Lanzarote: 31
Gran Canaria: 26
La Palma: 3
Fuerteventura: 1
La Gomera: 0
El Hierro: 0
The Ministry of Health has started sanctions on 2 people in La Palma, who skipped quarantine rules after being in close contact with someone who is confirmed to have Covid-19.
Yesterday morning they had a PCR test and they were told that they couldn't go out until they had received the test results, but despite this, they did.
Later yesterday afternoon their results came back positive. The case has been brought to the attention of the National Police and Public Health so that the appropriate controls are carried out so that they comply with the isolation according to health protocols.
The Ministry of Health reminds that these data are provisional because of the weekend and holidays. The full daily update will be active again later today.
