Covid update: Cases continue to drop but hospital pressure and deaths continue to increase


Covid update: Cases continue to drop but hospital pressure and deaths continue to increase

The Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands has reported 1,110 new cases of coronavirus today, taking the total number of cases in the Canary Islands to 245,130 since the pandemic began. There are 97,466 still active, of which 91 are admitted to ICU and 620 are hospitalized.

In the last 24 hours, the death of five people between 50 and 97 years old, three women and two men, has also been reported. Of these, two were recorded in Tenerife, two in Gran Canaria, and one in La Palma, all of them had previous pathologies and were already in hospital.

Regarding deaths from Covid, this month 200 people have lost their lives after being infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the Canary Islands so far, and in fact, it is now the worst month of the whole pandemic for the number of people who have died.

Previously the worst month was January 2021, when 115 people lost their lives after being infected with coronavirus, and not even during lockdown in the first months of the pandemic in March, April, and May 2020 was the figure of 200 deaths reached in a single month.

Data for Monday 24th January 2022:
(updates are against yesterday’s figures)

New cases: 1,110

Gran Canaria: 664

Tenerife: 284

Lanzarote: 87

Fuerteventura: 45

El Hierro: 16

La Palma: 9

La Gomera: 5

 

Current Incidence rate (IA7): 909.26

(Cases last 7 days: 19,786)

El Hierro: 2,484.97

La Palma: 1,406.70

Gran Canaria: 1,008.39

Fuerteventura: 889.49

Lanzarote: 841.40

Tenerife: 776.22

La Gomera: 567.40

Current Incidence rate (IA14): 2,517.61

(Cases last 14 days: 54,682)

El Hierro: 4,512.42

La Palma: 3,698.87

Lanzarote: 2,580.33

Gran Canaria: 2,519.40

Tenerife: 2,432.04

Fuerteventura: 2,275.08

La Gomera: 1,430.02

General:

Covid patients in hospital: 620 (+21)

Covid patients in ICU: 91 (+5)

Home isolation: 96,755

R number: 1.02 (needs to be below 1)

PCR test positivity rate: 30.79% (should be below 4.5%)


Vaccination:

Total administered: 4,081,521

Fully vaccinated: 1,708,678 people (81.46%)

One dose: 1,814,201 people (86.49%)

Children aged 5-11: 63,947 (46.71%)

Booster doses: 694,834


Deaths last 24 hours: 5

Tenerife: 2 (759)

Gran Canaria: 2 (459)

La Palma: 1 (28)

Total deaths: 1,340


Medical Discharges in last 24 hours: 1,329

Tenerife: 428

Lanzarote: 317

La Palma: 276

Gran Canaria: 248

La Gomera: 30

Fuerteventura: 27

El Hierro: 3


Total Active cases per island:

Total: 97,466

Tenerife: 45,053 (+146)

Gran Canaria: 39,145 (+414)

Lanzarote: 5,835 (-230)

Fuerteventura: 5,665 (+18)

La Palma: 1,331 (-268)

El Hierro: 307 (+13)

La Gomera: 130 (-25)

Municipalities with most active cases in each island:

28,302 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)

19,683 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)

8,429 in La Laguna (Tenerife)

3,752 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)

3,249 in Telde (Gran Canaria)

2,766 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)

1,981 in Arona (Tenerife)

1,805 in Adeje (Tenerife)

1,720 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)

1,384 in Santa Lucia de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)

1,369 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)

1,320 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)

886 in La Oliva (Fuerteventura)

693 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)

463 in Mogán (Gran Canaria)

441 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)

142 in Santiago del Teide (Tenerife)

(Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents the most infected and tourist areas

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