Covid update: 12 more deaths as cases continue to drop in the islands


Covid update: 12 more deaths as cases continue to drop in the islands

The Ministry of Health has reported 1,838 new cases today, a figure that has dropped below two thousand for the first time since Monday, and continues the downward trend that the archipelago is currently in.

Unfortunately, the number of deaths has risen again compared to yesterday, r with 12 deaths today from covid: five in Tenerife and seven in Gran Canaria. In total, the number of deaths in the archipelago is now 1,384 since the start of the pandemic

The accumulated total number of cases in the Canary Islands now amount to 253,797, of which 101,035 are still active, and it is hospital pressure that continues to concern medical experts, as today there are 725 people are hospitalized (90 in ICU and 635 on wards), and even with the highest number of deaths in a month during the whole pandemic (244 so far) hospital admissions continue to rise.  

Data for Friday 28th January 2022:
(updates are against yesterday’s figures)

New cases: 1,838

Gran Canaria: 918

Tenerife: 596

Fuerteventura: 119

La Palma: 100

Lanzarote: 81

El Hierro: 13

La Gomera: 11

 

Current Incidence rate (IA7): 589.17

(Cases last 7 days: 12,820)

El Hierro: 2,018.48

La Palma: 1,075.99

Gran Canaria: 730.20

Fuerteventura: 612.20

La Gomera: 438.23

Tenerife: 430.86

Lanzarote: 398.56

Current Incidence rate (IA14): 1,776.14

(Cases last 14 days: 38,526)

El Hierro: 4,476.54

La Palma: 2,749.89

Gran Canaria: 1,994.34

Fuerteventura: 1,809.88

Lanzarote: 1,622.47

Tenerife: 1,492.46

La Gomera: 1,097.89

General:

Covid patients in hospital: 635 (+18)

Covid patients in ICU: 90 (-3)

Home isolation: 100,310

R number: 0.74 (needs to be below 1)

PCR test positivity rate: 24.88% (should be below 4.5%)


Vaccination: (No update today)

Total administered: 4,120,962

Fully vaccinated: 1,709,458 people (81.49%)

One dose: 1,817,992 people (86.67%)

Children aged 5-11: 65,314 (47.71%)

Booster doses: 726,792


Deaths last 24 hours: 12

Gran Canaria: 7 (480)

Tenerife: 5 (780)

Total deaths: 1,384


Medical Discharges in last 24 hours: 815

Gran Canaria: 238

Tenerife: 197

La Palma: 190

Lanzarote: 153

El Hierro: 14

Fuerteventura: 12

La Gomera: 11


Total Active cases per island:

Total: 101,035

Tenerife: 46,652 (+394)

Gran Canaria: 41,899 (+673)

Fuerteventura: 6,171 (+107)

Lanzarote: 4,814 (-72)

La Palma: 1,145 (-90)

El Hierro: 218 (-1)

La Gomera: 136 (-)

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