The Canary Islands have started the second half of August maintaining the downward trend in new cases detected in the last two weeks, adding 230 new cases today, which is 154 less than last Monday. There are now 15,880 active cases in the islands, 105 are admitted to ICU, 406 are admitted to hospital wards, and 15,367 are under home treatment. The good news is that the Accumulated Incidence rates continue to decline and the IA7 now stands at 127.16 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and the IA14 at 327.76.
The islands have also registered another five Covid related deaths in the last 24 hours, four in Tenerife and one in Gran Canaria, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 882 fatalities. The deceased in Tenerife are a 78-year-old woman and three men aged 98, 78 and 54 years old, and the victim from Gran Canaria is a 60-year-old woman. All of them suffered from previous pathologies and were already hospitalised.
By islands, Gran Canaria registers the highest number of new infections today with 115 with 6,092 still active after adding 76 discharges. Tenerife adds 78 cases in the last 24 hours with 9,052 still active and is the island with 57% of the active cases of the entire archipelago.
Lanzarote adds another 10 cases of which 187 are active, Fuerteventura has 16 new cases with 490 still active (it is the island with the third most active cases). La Palma adds eight cases today due to an outbreak in its main hospital and now has 43 are still active after adding five discharges. El Hierro added one new case today and La Gomera two cases with one discharge.
Data for Monday 16th August 2021:
New cases: 230
Gran Canaria: 115
Tenerife: 78
Fuerteventura: 16
Lanzarote: 10
La Palma: 8
La Gomera: 2
El Hierro: 1
Current Incidence rate (IA7): 127.16
(Cases last 7 days: 2,767)
Tenerife: 138.60
Gran Canaria: 136.64
Fuerteventura: 124.44
Lanzarote: 79.58
La Palma: 34.75
La Gomera: 32.29
El Hierro: 17.94
Current Incidence rate (IA14): 327.76
(Cases last 14 days: 7,124)
Tenerife: 366.57
Gran Canaria: 360.13
Fuerteventura: 271.44
Lanzarote: 144.40
El Hierro: 98.68
La Gomera: 87.65
La Palma: 80.28
General:
Covid patients in hospital: 406 (+10)
Covid patients in ICU: 105 (-1)
Home isolation: 15,367
R number: 0.82 (needs to be below 1)
PCR test positivity rate: 8.89% (should be below 4.5%)
Deaths last 24 hours: 5
Tenerife: 4 (498)
Gran Canaria: 1 (302)
Total deaths: 882
Vaccination:
Total administered: 2,771,181 doses.
Immunised: 1,338,231 people (68.25%)
One dose: 1,584,496 people (80.81%)
Doses administered last week: 100,985
Target: 1,960,774 (population over 12 years old)
Medical Discharges in last 24 hours: 157
Gran Canaria: 76
Tenerife: 40
Lanzarote: 33
La Palma: 5
Fuerteventura: 1
La Gomera: 1
El Hierro: 1
Total Active cases per island:
Total: 15,878
Tenerife: 9,052 (+34)
Gran Canaria: 6,092 (+38)
Fuerteventura: 490 (+15)
Lanzarote: 187 (-23)
La Palma: 43 (+3)
La Gomera: 10 (+1)
El Hierro: 4 (-)
Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
5,149 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
3,894 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
1,682 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
898 in Arona (Tenerife)
728 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
557 in Adeje (Tenerife)
286 in Santa Lucia de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
235 in Telde (Gran Canaria)
196 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
162 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
160 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
160 in La Oliva (Fuerteventura)
155 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
116 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
78 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
55 in Mogán (Gran Canaria)
54 in Santiago del Teide (Tenerife)
(Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents the most infected and tourist areas)
