The Ministry of Health has notified of 284 new cases of coronavirus today in the Canary Islands, which takes the total number of accumulated cases in the Islands to 50,271 with 4,369 still active, of which 87 (5 more than yesterday) are admitted to ICU and 315 remain hospitalized. In the last 24 hours there have been two Covid related deaths of two women in Gran Canaria, aged 84 and 90, who suffered from previous pathologies and their infections originated in outbreaks of family origin.
Of the new cases today, Tenerife has added the most with 154, followed by Gran Canaria with 85. The level 2 islands have low numbers again with 17 new cases in Fuerteventura and 14 in Lanzarote. El Hierro’s outbreak has continued with 9 more cases, and La Palma has registered 5. La Gomera has had no new cases in the last 24 hours.
The Ministry of Health announced that the SCS set a new record yesterday by inoculating 18,418 people in one day as new mass vaccination centres are opening in Gran Canaria and Tenerife to ramp up the vaccination plan. They are urging anyone aged 66-69 years old who hasn’t been contacted for their first jab, to call 012 as soon as possible.
This is because they are finding that some people have changed their contact details and haven’t updated them with the health authorities, and that a large number of people, of all nationalities, have left the islands and returned to their homeland without them knowing.
