According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, the Canary Islands have experienced an increase in cases today, but not to the levels experienced in the fifth wave of the virus so far, with 671 new cases and five Covid related deaths, all of them in Tenerife, three women aged 56, 57 and 69 years old and two men of 44 and 56 years old. This means that 16 people have now died in the last four days.
Of the new cases, 346 are in Tenerife, 275 are in Gran Canaria, 17 are in Fuerteventura, 17 in Lanzarote, 9 in La Palma, 5 in La Gomera, and 2 are in El Hierro. Today active cases actually reduced slightly, as there were more people medically discharged (674) than new cases.
The Ministry of Health has addressed the question from people that don’t fully understand the situation of the pandemic, by answering the question they repeatedly ask: “What’s the point of me getting vaccinated if there are people that have had the jab that are catching Covid?”
They have explained that an increase in number of cases will occur in the vaccinated population as it is a matter of simple statistics: if the vast majority of the population is going to be vaccinated in the next few weeks, the expectation is that, obviously, the number of infections among those immunized will grow, because total protection does not exist as the vaccines have an efficacy of 90% plus.
Therefore, no matter how many people get vaccinated, there will always be cases of infections among those inoculated. But that reasoning is not so obvious for anti-vaxxers. In fact, in the Ministry of Health there is much concern about the expected campaign of the deniers, who for years, long before the appearance of Covid, have used this paradox as one of their main arguments in the final phases of the mass immunizations.
The Ministry went on to use this analogy: “Imagine the MMR vaccine against measles, which works very well. In a school there are 100 children, 95 are vaccinated and 5 are not. Let's imagine that the virus infects 7 of those vaccinated and 5 not vaccinated. If we look at the cases, it could be stated, and it would be true, that most of the cases have occurred among those vaccinated, but if we look at it as a percentage of the population, 100% of the unvaccinated would have been infected, compared to 7% of those vaccinated”.
It all depends on how you look at the data. These vaccines have a very high protection, but it is not total. The more people we vaccinate, the more frequent the cases are vaccinated, because it will be much more frequent in the population to be immunized, until we reach herd immunity.
Data for Tuesday 3rd August 2021:
New cases: 671
Tenerife: 346
Gran Canaria: 275
Fuerteventura: 17
Lanzarote: 17
La Palma: 9
La Gomera: 5
El Hierro: 2
Current Incidence rate (IA7): 247.06
(Cases last 7 days: 5,376)
Tenerife: 298.51
Gran Canaria: 252.36
Fuerteventura: 204.62
La Gomera: 101.49
Lanzarote: 75.09
La Palma: 64.70
El Hierro: 62.80
Current Incidence rate (IA14): 500.15
(Cases last 14 days: 10,861)
Tenerife: 615.76
Gran Canaria: 496.89
Fuerteventura: 356.63
La Gomera: 332.13
La Palma: 198.90
Lanzarote: 148.90
El Hierro: 134.57
General:
Covid patients in hospital: 464 (-15)
Covid patients in ICU: 91 (+1)
Home isolation: 14,102
R number: 1.12 (needs to be below 1)
PCR test positivity rate: 11.20% (should be below 4.5%)
Deaths last 24 hours: 5
Tenerife: 1 (468)
Gran Canaria: 1 (285)
Fuerteventura: 1 (14)
La Palma: 1 (10)
Total deaths: 836
Vaccination:
Total administered: 2,576,780 doses.
Immunised: 1,219,394 people (62.20%)
One dose: 1,499,281 people (76.46%)
Target: 1,960,774 (population over 12 years old)
Medical Discharges in last 24 hours: 674
Tenerife: 312
Gran Canaria: 215
Fuerteventura: 110
La Gomera: 13
Lanzarote: 12
La Palma: 12
El Hierro: 0
Total Active cases per island:
Total: 14,657
Tenerife: 8,518 (+29)
Gran Canaria: 5,169 (+60)
Fuerteventura: 640 (-93)
Lanzarote: 171 (+5)
La Palma: 109 (-3)
La Gomera: 39 (-8)
El Hierro: 11 (+2)
Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
4,244 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
3,673 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
1,550 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
766 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
762 in Arona (Tenerife)
535 in Adeje (Tenerife)
322 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
240 in Telde (Gran Canaria)
233 in Santa Lucia de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
202 in La Oliva (Fuerteventura)
147 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
145 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
145 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
127 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
73 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
71 in Mogán (Gran Canaria)
42 in Santiago del Teide (Tenerife)
(Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents the most infected and tourist areas)
