According to the latest data from the Ministry of health there have been 162 new cases of coronavirus detected today which takes the total number of cases to 55,345 in the Canary Islands since the start of the pandemic. Of these 231 are in hospital wards, 47 are ICU, and 1,679 are in home isolation. There has also been one verified Covid related death in Lanzarote, meaning that 49 people have now lost their lives on that island.
Of the new cases registered, 86 are in Tenerife, 50 are in Gran Canaria, 17 in Lanzarote where the gym outbreak now accounts for 147 infected people, 5 are in Fuerteventura, 4 in La Palma and none in either La Gomera or El Hierro.
There is a 6.76% increase in the number of new cases in the islands this week (913), which has meant the incidence rates have gone up again. The IA7 for the islands is 41.96 and the IA14 is 81.90.Tenerife and Lanzarote remain as the only two islands with an IA7 above 50 as the other five islands in the archipelago are below 30, and with an IA14 above 100.
Vaccination wise, the SCS has now administered over 922,000 doses of the four vaccines available to them, with almost 295,000 people in the Canary Islands fully immunised. They’ve also announced that Bioethics have endorsed the second dose of AstraZeneca for those under 60 years of age.
This means that non-frontline essential workers that had already had their first dose before the use of AstraZeneca in under 60’s was stopped, now have a choice if they would prefer Pfizer or AstraZeneca for their second jab.
