The Canary Islands closed this week with signs that the peak of the sixth wave curve has passed and the number of new cases and incidence rates continue to drop. The Ministry of Health reported 2,799 new cases of coronavirus yesterday which is 35% less than those reported last Friday. In fact, during the last seven days, 25,156 infections have been registered, over 10,000 less than in the previous week.
The total number of cases in the Canary Islands has now reached 240,066 with 95,317 still active, of which 80 are admitted to ICU and 579 are hospitalized. They also confirmed the deaths of five people, three in Tenerife and two in Gran Canaria, aged between 55 and 94, three men and two women, all of whom had previous pathologies.
The Canaries seems to have already doubled the curve of contagion of the sixth wave and this Friday the archipelago registered a 7-day incidence rate of 1,156.05 cases, which is 500 points less than last Friday, when the maximum incidence of this wave was reached, with 1,660 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Infections show a downward trend in all the islands, except El Hierro, which has been moved to Level 3 alert from Monday, where they continue to rise. As of yesterday, they registered an IA7 of 2,449 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
The positivity rate, which is the percentage of positive PCR tests carried out, is also showing a downward trend as yesterday it was 33% compared to the highest of 43% registered on January 12th, and the R rate of contagion has dropped from a high of 1.42 two weeks ago to 1.02 yesterday.
Data for Friday 21st January 2022:
(updates are against yesterday’s figures)
New cases: 2,799
Gran Canaria: 1,218
Tenerife: 985
La Palma: 193
Lanzarote: 171
Fuerteventura: 171
El Hierro: 38
La Gomera: 23
Current Incidence rate (IA7): 1,156.09
(Cases last 7 days: 25,156)
El Hierro: 2,449.09
La Palma: 1,672.70
Gran Canaria: 1,231.30
Lanzarote: 1,201.45
Fuerteventura: 1,162.60
Tenerife: 1,027.89
La Gomera: 659.65
Current Incidence rate (IA14): 2,816.65
(Cases last 14 days: 60,869)
La Palma: 4,170.96
El Hierro: 4,108.73
Lanzarote: 2,991.43
Tenerife: 2,787.63
Fuerteventura: 2,658.44
Gran Canaria: 2,718.93
La Gomera: 1,651.44
General:
Covid patients in hospital: 579 (-7)
Covid patients in ICU: 80 (-)
Home isolation: 94,657
R number: 1.02(needs to be below 1)
PCR test positivity rate: 32.92% (should be below 4.5%)
Vaccination: (No update today)
Total administered: 4,037,278
Fully vaccinated: 1,706,281 people (81.34%)
One dose: 1,812,375 people (86.40%)
Children aged 5-11: 61,902 (45.21%)
Booster doses: 658,489
Deaths last 24 hours: 5
Tenerife: 3 (745)
Gran Canaria: 2 (446)
Total deaths: 1,311
Medical Discharges in last 24 hours: 2,289
Tenerife: 1,089
Lanzarote: 460
Gran Canaria: 397
La Palma: 282
El Hierro: 29
La Gomera: 18
Fuerteventura: 14
Total Active cases per island:
Total: 95,317
Tenerife: 44,696 (-107)
Gran Canaria: 36,813 (+819)
Lanzarote: 6,229 (-289)
Fuerteventura: 5,513 (+157)
La Palma: 1,604 (-89)
El Hierro: 290 (+9)
La Gomera: 171 (+5)
Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
26,432 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
19,303 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
8,400 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
4,014 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
3,134 in Telde (Gran Canaria)
2,672 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
1,995 in Arona (Tenerife)
1,789 in Adeje (Tenerife)
1,721 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
1,316 in Santa Lucia de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
1,309 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
1,304 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
914 in La Oliva (Fuerteventura)
696 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
442 in Mogán (Gran Canaria)
440 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
152 in Santiago del Teide (Tenerife)
(Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents the most infected and tourist areas
