The Canary Islands has added 140 new cases of coronavirus today (Thursday) that means that more than 39,000 people have been infected by the virus, since the start of the pandemic. In the 24 last hours there have been two more deaths, in Gran Canaria, which brings the total number of fatalities to 567.
The islands have seen a drop in active cases to 6,483 after 333 medical discharges today, with 84 patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (four more than yesterday) and 287 patients admitted to hospital wards. The other 6,112 people are being treated at their homes, according to the update by the Ministry of Health at 2:00pm.
While waiting for the levels of restrictions to be reviewed on Sunday, Gran Canaria continues with a downward trend in new infections and today is the island with the second most new cases by reporting 46 cases, raising its accumulated total to 15,968. In addition, it adds another 169 epidemiological discharges that make active cases fall to 3,689.
Tenerife continues with a pattern of slight increases in cases and ranks as the island with the most new cases today, adding 59, raising its accumulated total to 16,381. Lanzarote , which is still at level 4 restrictions, continues with its downward path and adds 21 cases that bring its total to 4,296, of these 404 are still active.
Fuerteventura remains stable and registers 12 cases in the last hours to a total of 1,539 of which 132 are still active. La Palma notifies of only two new cases, and El Hierro and La Gomera remain unchanged.
Data for Thursday 18th February 2021:
New cases:
Total: 140
Gran Canaria: 46 (33%)
Tenerife: 59 (42%)
Lanzarote: 21 (15%)
Fuerteventura: 12
La Palma: 2
El Hierro: 0
La Gomera: 0
Current Incidence rate (IA7):
Canary Islands: 52.80 (↓)
Lanzarote: 112.94 (↓)
Gran Canaria: 59.80 (↓)
Fuerteventura: 51.33 (↑)
Tenerife: 40.75 (↑)
La Palma: 21.77 (↓)
El Hierro: 18.23 (↓)
La Gomera: 9.30 (-)
Current Incidence rate (IA14):
Canary Islands: 118.28 (↓)
El Hierro: 483.22 (↓)
Lanzarote: 313.22 (↓)
Gran Canaria: 136.98 (↓)
Fuerteventura: 85.55 (↑)
Tenerife: 78.01 (↑)
La Palma: 39.92 (↓)
La Gomera: 9.30 (-)
General:
Covid patients in hospital: 287 (↓16)
Covid patients in ICU: 84 (↑4)
Home isolation: 6,112 (↓)
PCR positive rate: 4.15% (needs to be below 5)
R number: 0.92 (needs to be below 1)
Deaths last 24 hours: 2
Gran Canaria: 2 (180)
Total deaths: 567
Vaccination:
Total administered: 109,051
Two doses: 45,357
Medical Discharges in last 24 hours:
Total: 333
Gran Canaria: 169
Tenerife: 109
Lanzarote: 48
Fuerteventura: 3
La Palma: 3
El Hierro: 0
La Gomera: 0
Total Active cases per island:
Total: 6,483 (↓)
Gran Canaria: 3,689 (↓125)
Tenerife: 2,140 (↓50)
Lanzarote: 404 (↓28)
Fuerteventura: 132 (↑9)
El Hierro: 94 (-)
La Palma: 22 (↓1)
La Gomera: 2 (-)
Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
3,349 (↓) in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
1,254 (↓) in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
404 (↓) in La Laguna (Tenerife)
380 (↓) in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
102 (-) in Adeje (Tenerife)
93 (-) in Valverde (El Hierro)
83 (↓) in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
80 (↓) in Arona (Tenerife)
80 (-) in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
77 (↑) in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
20 (-) in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
17 (↓) in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
6 (↓) in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents most infected and tourist areas.
