The Canary Islands continue their downward trend with 106 new cases today and 317 medical discharges. Total cases have passed 55,000 in the archipelago today, of which 2,133 are still active with 49 admitted to ICU, 234 in Covid wards, and 1,850 in home isolation.
The Ministry of Health have informed of two Covid related deaths today in the Canary Islands, of a 77-year-old man in Tenerife and a 76-year-old woman in Gran Canaria. Both were associated with individual family outbreaks, suffered from previous pathologies and were admitted to hospital.
The incidence rates have also dropped today, so that the IA7 for the Canary Islands stands at 39.43 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and the IA14 at 79.41 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. To date, a total of 1,104,283 PCR tests have been carried out in the Islands, of which 3,920 correspond to yesterday.
By islands, Tenerife has added 46 new cases today, Gran Canaria has 42, Lanzarote adds 15 new cases, Fuerteventura adds 1, La Palma 1, La Gomera 1, and El Hierro doesn’t have any new cases detected today.
The Canary Islands have detected 67 new outbreaks this week with 374 positive cases deriving from them, of which 33 are in Tenerife, 23 in Gran Canaria, nine in Lanzarote, one in Fuerteventura and one in El Hierro.
By area in which they have occurred, 26 are social outbreaks, 24 family-related, 9 in the workplace, 5 educational, 2 of socially vulnerable groups and 1 sports. The Outbreak in a gym in Arrecife now accounts for 136 infected people in Lanzarote.
After calling for residents over the age of 55 in Tenerife and Gran Canaria to call 012 for vaccination appointment, they have extended this to Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma and El Hierro, and in La Gomera they have started vaccinating those aged 50 to 55 also.
