The improvement in the health indicators in all of the Canary Islands is pointing to a reduction of alert level in some of the islands, as confirmed this morning the president of the Government, Ángel Víctor Torres, who announced in the regional Parliament that tomorrow (Thursday) some islands will reduce their restrictions.
Despite the fact that the transmission of the coronavirus is in full decline and hospital admissions are beginning to show a downward trend, Covid continues to claim lives in the archipelago.
In the first eight days of February, 64 people have died from the virus in the Canary Islands, which represents an average of eight deaths per day, compared to 8.9 daily deaths in the archipelago in January, the most tragic month of the pandemic when 278 people lost their lives.
However, infections continue to decline and yesterday the 7-day incidence rate stood at 286 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which is a 43% drop in the indicator in the last week.
A slight decrease in hospital pressure is also being seen and yesterday there were 633 Covid patients in Canarian hospitals (77 in ICU and 556 in wards), compared to 725 on January 28th, a drop of 13%.
Currently, Gran Canaria and Tenerife are at Level 4 and the rest of the islands are at Level 3, and last Thursday the government spokesman, Julio Perez, did comment that much of the data was looking a lot better. This has now been consolidated over the last week, hence Torres’ comments. The next Governing Council meeting to review the data is tomorrow afternoon.
