Covid update: incidence rates, hospital admissions, and the R rate have all dropped


Covid update: incidence rates, hospital admissions, and the R rate have all dropped

The day before the next review of the epidemiological report by the Governing Council, the latest data from the Ministry of Health shows a sharp drop in incidence rates, hospital admissions, and the R rate of contagion, even though there are 1,378 new cases and 8 deaths in the islands today.

Currently, there are 103,142 active cases in the archipelago with 603 Covid patients in wards and 90 in ICU. However, the 7-day incidence rate for the islands as a whole has now dropped to 392.15 with only La Palma and El Hierro above 500, which will both drop quickly as they have small populations. The key ones are that Tenerife and Lanzarote are both now below 300, and Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura are now both around 450.

The best bit of news is that the R rate of contagion, which was at 1.74 just a few weeks ago, is now at 0.64 the lowest it has been since the start of the sixth wave. This means that the spread of the virus is more under control and that it now has a negative spread as it is below 1, i.e. the lower it is the better.

Data for Wednesday 2nd February 2022:
(updates are against yesterday’s figures)

New cases: 1,378

Gran Canaria: 657

Tenerife: 444

Fuerteventura: 110

Lanzarote: 73

La Palma: 71

El Hierro: 16

La Gomera: 7

 

Current Incidence rate (IA7): 392.15

(Cases last 7 days: 8,534)

El Hierro: 1,282.86

La Palma: 789.62

Gran Canaria: 462.29

Fuerteventura: 451.01

La Gomera: 309.07

Tenerife: 294.64

Lanzarote: 277.90

Current Incidence rate (IA14): 1,103.33

(Cases last 14 days: 23,908)

El Hierro: 3,651.21

La Palma: 2,071.70

Gran Canaria: 1,333.46

Fuerteventura: 1,196.00

La Gomera: 834.95

Tenerife: 819.19

Lanzarote: 798.40

General:

Covid patients in hospital: 603 (-23)

Covid patients in ICU: 90 (+2)

Home isolation: 102,449

R number: 0.64 (needs to be below 1)

PCR test positivity rate: 20.19% (should be below 4.5%)


Deaths last 24 hours: 8

Gran Canaria: 4 (503)

Tenerife: 2 (803)

Lanzarote: 1 (65)

El Hierro: 1 (6)

Total deaths: 1,435


Medical Discharges in last 24 hours: 753

Lanzarote: 299

Gran Canaria: 170

La Palma: 143

Tenerife:114

El Hierro: 19

La Gomera: 7

Fuerteventura: 1


Total Active cases per island:

Total: 103,142

Tenerife: 48,076 (+328)

Gran Canaria: 43,809 (+483)

Fuerteventura: 6,539 (+109)

Lanzarote: 3,574 (-227)

La Palma: 908 (-72)

El Hierro: 128 (-4)

La Gomera: 108 (-)

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