The Ministry of Health has announced the latest figures for the detection of Covid cases in the Canary Islands, and for the third day running Gran Canaria has the most cases in the archipelago since being lowered to level 2 restrictions.
In the last 24 hours 189 new cases of coronavirus have been detected from 2,700 PCR tests carried out, of which Gran Canaria has 90, which means that they’ve had 258 new cases since Sunday. Tenerife have added 74, Lanzarote 12, and Fuerteventura 11.
Active cases in the islands have reduced slightly thanks to 272 medical discharges, leaving 6,063 active cases of which 281 are in hospital wards and 86 are in ICU. They have also reported of two more Covid related deaths, a 64-year-old man in Gran Canaria and an 84-year-old woman in Tenerife, who caught the virus from a younger member of her family.
