LATEST: All islands are staying at the same level for another week

Following a week of continued downward trend in the epidemiological data in the islands, the Governing council decided today to leave all the islands in the same alert level that they are in for another week. This decision comes on the same day that masks outdoors in public have been scrapped, the TSJC refused to approve the extension of the voluntary use of the Covid certificate, and the Canaries president announced that the entry requirements for UK travellers will be lifted ‘imminently’.

In the press conference after the meeting, the vice president of the Canarian Government, Antonio Olivera, said that the epidemiological report dated February 9^th, shows the evolution of the health indicators for Covid-19 which keeps all the islands at their current alert levels.

This means that Tenerife and Gran Canaria remain at alert level 4; and La Palma, Fuerteventura, El Hierro, La Gomera and Lanzarote remain at level 3.

In the Canary Islands as a whole, between February 1st and 7th, 6,230 new cases of Covid were reported, which represents a reduction of around 33% in the daily average of new cases, in relation to the previous week.

That corresponds to a decrease of 33.7% in the 7-day incidence rate in the Canary Islands, when it dropped from 432 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to 286 cases this week.

Currently, all the islands are still at a very high-risk level in this indicator, except for Tenerife and Lanzarote, which have dropped to high-risk level. In the IA7 in people over 65 years of age and in the IA14, all the islands are at very high risk, although in both indicators there are decreases in the islands as a whole of 38.6% and 52.3%, respectively.

Healthcare indicators:
Regarding hospital pressure, the daily average number of hospital beds occupied by Covid patients decreased by 16.4% compared to the previous week, and with an average occupancy rate of 14.2%, it is at high risk. The percentage of occupation in Gran Canaria is at a very high-risk level; in Tenerife at high-risk; Fuerteventura, La Gomera, and El Hierro at medium risk; and Lanzarote and La Palma at low risk.

The number of ICU beds occupied by Covid patients maintains an upward trend, increasing by 10.2% compared to the previous evaluation. The percentage of occupation in the whole of the Archipelago is now 20%. Tenerife is at a very high-risk level, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura are at high risk, while the rest of the islands are in controlled circulation.

Hospital admissions:
59.3% of people admitted to intensive care units, diagnosed during the last 30 days, were not fully vaccinated, a high percentage if we take into account that only 18.21 percent of the population over 5 years of age has not yet been vaccinated.