The Ministry of Health has notified of 210 new cases of coronavirus in the Canary Islands today, with 91% of them in Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Tenerife has registered 102 new cases and has the most actives with 2,089 and Gran Canaria has 89 new cases with 2,073 of them active. In addition, four more people, two in Tenerife and two in Gran Canaria, have lost their lives due to the pandemic in the archipelago in the last 24 hours.
The two from Gran Canaria, aged 75 and 87, are both associated with individual family outbreaks, and the other two in Tenerife, are aged 64 and 69. The first three were admitted to hospital and the fourth was linked to a family outbreak. All had previous pathologies and experienced a worsening of their clinical condition.
These figures reflect exactly what the Government, public health, and every resident in the Canary Islands didn’t want to see, as this spike in cases represents a backward step in the data for islands, just 48 hours before the next Governing Council meeting to review alert Levels and Easter restrictions.
It’s already been said that there will be some strict regulations for a two week period from 26th March to April 9th, which will be almost the same as over Carnival period, but with extras. This data fully endorses the central Governments recommendation of a perimeter closure over Easter, which the Canaries don’t want, as the cases and incidence rates are increasing, and are actually higher now than before Carnival.
