According to the latest updates from the Ministry of Health, there have been 469 new cases of coronavirus detected today meaning that over 3,000 have been registered in the last week, which are levels of infection not seen during the pandemic before. Tenerife has the most with 269 new cases, there are 147 in Gran Canaria, 32 in Fuerteventura, 12 in La Palma, 5 in La Gomera, and 4 in Lanzarote.
The delta variant of the Covid-19 virus now exceeds 20% of infections in Tenerife, where cases are spread across all territorial areas and age groups, while there are vaccinated and immunized people who have become infected and require hospital care, both in ICU and in wards, with an increase of admissions of 5% in the last 24 hours.
The high transmission of the virus among the young population is increasing exposure to the virus in other age groups and vulnerable populations, and there is already a non-negligible percentage of people admitted to hospitals who have at least one dose of the vaccine, hence why it is so important that everyone eligible gets vaccinated as soon as possible.
The Ministry has also updated the vaccination progress of the SCS, as you can see below, with almost 8,000 people aged 40-59 inoculated yesterday, and over 155,000 doses administered in the last week.
They have also registered 526,364 downloads of the EU Covid Digital Certificate in the Canary Islands since its activation a month ago. It is available through the SCS website and at www.miCertificadocovid.com.
Of these, 506,496 had been vaccinated, 17,358 had a negative test, and 2,510 had overcome the virus. This is the document that allows people residing in EU member countries to prove they’ve been vaccinated or had a test and travel around Europe, and is the document that will be acceptable in the UK when an agreement is made with the EU Commission.
