The Ministry Of Health has announced this afternoon that Gran Canaria and La Palma are both going up to alert Level 4 restrictions, due to the unfavourable evolution of the epidemiological indicators in the two islands, and the pressure on hospitals. This change will come into effect from 00.00H on Saturday 22nd January.
As highlighted in the last report of the General Directorate of Public Health on January 12th, the situation of the indicators for Gran Canaria was subject to continuous observation, and now they have deemed it necessary to make the change in level.
Therefore, once it has been confirmed that the healthcare capacity and hospital pressure in both islands are at very high risk, then La Palma must move to alert level 4 also.
Gran Canaria indicators:
Today's report shows that in the case of Gran Canaria, which already had the Cumulative Incidence Rates over 7 and 14 days for both the general population and those over 65 at very high risk in the last review, has experienced a worsening in those related to care capacity in hospitals.
The percentage of occupancy of conventional beds (15.58%) and ICU (26.43%) has been progressively rising, reaching a very high-risk level.
La Palma indicators:
In the case of La Palma, which has been at alert level 3 since January 7th, it has all the indicators of cumulative incidence rates over 7 and 14 days at a very high-risk level. In addition, in recent weeks there has been a significant increase in the percentage of occupancy of conventional beds, which has risen to a very high-risk level.
Occupancy in conventional beds has risen in one week from a medium to very high-risk level (with 15.76%), although that of ICUs remains at a very low-risk level (3.85%).
Both islands will now be in Level 4 from 00:00 hours on January 22nd until, at least, February 3rd 2022.
