The Ministry of Health have reported that 8,028 people got vaccinated yesterday at the Santiago Martin Pavillion, but only 1,730 people went for testing at the three centres in Santa Cruz La Laguna and San Isidro. From the screening 127 people tested positive with antigen tests, and some of those have now been confirmed with PCR’s and have been added to the cases totals for the last 24 hours.
In total 345 new cases have been detected, of which 255 are in Tenerife, 77 are in Gran Canaria, 9 in Fuerteventura, 3 in El Hierro, 1 in La Palma, and none in Lanzarote or La Gomera. They have also reported of two Covid related deaths in Tenerife of a man and a woman, both 81 years old, taking the total number of lives lost to 791 since the pandemic began.
Active cases have now risen to 4,176 in the islands, 3,195 of them in Tenerife, with 207 people in hospital, 33 in ICU and 3,936 in home isolation. It has also been confirmed that in Tenerife the Delta (Indian) variant of the virus is up to five times more infectious and can spread easily to other islands. Rodrigo Martín, president of the College of Physicians of Santa Cruz de Tenerife explains, "You can be infected to the minimum, with a very small viral load compared to other variants which is why it is easier to catch.”
Regarding incidence rates, they have increased again also with the IA7 for the islands now standing at 97.70 and the IA14 at 155.10. However it is not only Tenerife having an effect now, yes without doubt it is the most infected island and having the biggest negative effect on the data, but the IA7 for Fuerteventura is now at 116.93 and Gran Canaria is touching 50 at 49.91. Regarding the IA14’s, Tenerife is now at 265.56 and Fuerteventura at 174.56, all grim stats in the face of things.
