The Ministry have Health have informed of 231 new positives today in the Canary Islands, which means that more than 36,000 people have now tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began. Gran Canaria continues to have most of the new cases with 135, but the rate of new cases has stabilised over the last few days.
Lanzaraote had 53 new cases detected on the island and Tenerife continued its downward trend with only 27. Of the four Covid related deaths today, 3 were in Gran Canaria and 1 in Fuerteventura, only the 5th Covid death on that island during the pandemic.
Tenerife passed a landmark today as active cases dropped below 3,000 due to having a low number of new cases and 225 medical discharges, and in the south of the island there are currently 447 active cases, which is a drop of 33% in January when they reached almost 700.
Data for Wednesday 3rd February 2021:
New cases:
Total: 231
Gran Canaria: 135 (58%)
Lanzarote: 53 (23%)
Tenerife: 27 (11%)
Fuerteventura: 9
El Hierro: 7
La Palma: 0
La Gomera: 0
Current Incidence rate (IA7):
Canary Islands: 82.80 (1,780 cases over last 7 days)
Lanzarote: 295.49 (450)
El Hierro: 246.17 (27)
Gran Canaria: 115.48 (983)
Fuerteventura: 50.48 (59)
Tenerife: 27.89 (256)
La Palma: 6.05 (5)
La Gomera: 0.00 (0)
Current Incidence rate (IA14):
Canary Islands: 176.79 (3,800 cases over last 14 days)
Lanzarote: 659.93 (1,005)
El Hierro: 373.82 (41)
Gran Canaria: 225.79 (1,922)
Fuerteventura: 116.35 (136)
Tenerife: 75.18 (690)
La Palma: 7.26 (6)
La Gomera: 0.00 (0)
General:
Covid patients in hospital: 345 (-2)
Covid patients in ICU: 79 (+8)
Home isolation: 7,210
PCR positive rate: 6.13% (needs to be below 5)
R number: 0.92 (needs to be below 1)
Deaths last 24 hours: 4
Gran Canaria: 3 (167)
Fuerteventura: 1 (5)
Total deaths: 534
Vaccination:
Total administered: 67,783
Two doses: 14,647
Medical Discharges in last 24 hours:
Total: 369
Tenerife: 225
Gran Canaria: 77
Lanzarote: 61
Fuerteventura: 5
El Hierro: 1
La Palma: 0
La Gomera: 0
Total Active cases per island:
Total: 7,634
Gran Canaria: 3,643 (+55)
Tenerife: 2,896 (-198)
Lanzarote: 922 (-8)
Fuerteventura: 134 (+3)
El Hierro: 34 (+6)
La Palma: 5 (-)
La Gomera: 0 (-)
Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
3,311 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
1,537 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
841 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
665 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
155 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
150 in Arona (Tenerife)
107 in Adeje (Tenerife)
72 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
67 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
33 in Valverde (El Hierro)
31 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
20 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
14 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
0 in San Sebastian (La Gomera)
Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents most infected and tourist areas.
