Every day we are receiving messages or emails ‘demanding’ that we stop reporting about the number of coronavirus cases in the Canary Islands, for reasons ranging from ‘they’re not important anymore’ to ‘this just a flu’ or ‘find another way to report it.’ Taking into account we’ve been writing about it every day since the first case was detected in La Gomera on January 31st last year, over 18 months ago, we’d love to find a different way, but we publish updated stats of everything so there isn’t another way.
Regarding the cases not being important anymore, yes we understand that there are less deaths and there’s not as much pressure on the health system, etc, etc (we’ve written about that several times before!), but unfortunately they are, as they are the indicator that leads to incidence which is how we can see if restrictions are working, and until there is a new scale, or the Ministry of Health stop producing data because it’s beaten (which won’t be well until we’ve past herd immunity with vaccinations), they will be reported on.
On that note, the latest data shows there have been 430 new cases detected in the islands today, with only 79 people medically discharged, increasing active cases to 5,143 of which 225 are in wards, 37 are in ICU and 4,881 are being treated in home isolation.
Tenerife has the most new cases again with 262 in the last 24 hours, there are 111 in Gran Canaria, 29 in Fuerteventura, 12 in La Palma, 6 in La Gomera, 5 in Lanzarote and 5 in El Hierro. These cases have increased the IA7 for the islands to 125.78 and the IA14 to 210.21, with only Lanzarote and La Gomera with an IA7 below the tourism threshold of 50.
