The Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands has announced that all the islands are staying at alert level 1 in the update of the 'traffic light' this week, after reviewing the epidemiological report from the Public Health committee, with consolidated data as of October 27th, showing the evolution of Covid health indicators.
In the last week, between October 20th and 26th, 580 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the Canary Islands, which represents an increase of 41% in the daily average of new cases compared to the previous week (from October 13th to 19th), in which 411 cases were registered.
Given this increase, the Ministry of Health insists on the importance of prevention measures with the use of masks in indoor spaces, hand hygiene, and maintaining social distancing to avoid risk of transmission of the virus.
Regarding this increase in cases, during the last week the average IA7 rate in the Islands as a whole increased by 46.3% compared to the previous week. This increase now places Tenerife, Gran Canaria, and Lanzarote at a medium risk level; Fuerteventura has varied between a medium and low-risk level; La Gomera stays at low-risk level; while La Palma and El Hierro have a very low-risk level of contagion.
The daily average 14-day incidence rate has increased by 19%, although it continues to be at low risk. All the islands are at low or very low risk for this indicator except Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, which are at medium risk.
HOSPITAL PRESSURE INDICATORS:
The favourable evolution continues for the islands as a whole, and remains at very low risk in terms of the occupancy of both conventional and ICU beds, although Tenerife and Gran Canaria have the majority of Covid patients. The daily average of occupancy of conventional beds decreased by around 22.8% compared to the previous week, with an average of 78 beds occupied each day compared to 101 the previous week.
Regarding the number of occupied ICU beds by Covid patients, the decline that began two months ago continues and consolidates, and all the islands continue to have a very low risk of ICU bed occupancy. In the archipelago as a whole, it has gone from an average of 21 ICU beds occupied two weeks ago, to 18 in the last week.
The cumulative incidence rate of Covid-19 cases in the last week is 2.9 times higher in the population that has not received any dose of vaccine compared to the rate in the population that has been fully vaccinated, and 75% of the people admitted to ICU in the last two weeks, have not been vaccinated.
