The latest data from the Ministry of Health is the data that will be presented to the Governing Council by the Public Health Committee as part of their review of the alert levels for the islands this afternoon. The upward trend is continuing in the Canary Islands with a new record of 690 new cases, but it is not now just Tenerife that is seeing a sharp increase.
Incidence rates over 7 days are now over 100 in all of the islands except Lanzarote, and Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria have IA14’s over 200as the archipelago is producing data not seen before during the pandemic.
The Governing Council are reviewing the actual indicators and parameters that dictate the alert levels as well today, however, 391 new cases in Tenerife and 231 in Gran Canaria will not help their decisions.
There have also been three Covid related deaths in the islands today, two in Tenerife and one in Gran Canaria, and 10 more people admitted to hospital wards and ICU as the two main hospitals in the capital islands are starting to feel the pressure of the pandemic again.
OUTBREAKS:
The Canary Islands has recorded 215 new outbreaks with 1.193 cases this week, of which 131 have occurred in Tenerife, 65 in Gran Canaria, 11 in Fuerteventura, 4 in La Palma, 3 in Lanzarote and 1 in La Gomera. Of these, 113 are social outbreaks, 57 in families, and 30 at work.
Most of the outbreaks have less than 10 associated cases except for fifteen of them, among which include: a social/family started on a night out in La Palma with 47 cases; a work/family one in Gran Canaria with 39 cases in the construction sector; two social outbreaks in Gran Canaria, one with 27 cases from a birthday celebration, and another with 13 cases at a barbecue; one social with 16 infections in a gathering of friends in Fuerteventura; two sport-related outbreaks in Gran Canaria with 16 and 14 cases; and three social outbreaks in Tenerife with 13, 12 and 12 cases.
49 existing outbreaks are still being monitored, some of which have grown in number of cases. Thus, there is a social/ work/family outbreak that now has 61 people infected in Gran Canaria; one at a food company in Fuerteventura with 47 cases: one educational/family in Tenerife with 33 positives, and two social outbreaks in Tenerife with 46 cases and 32 positives respectively.
