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 (-)
