The Canary Islands ends the week adding another 330 new cases of coronavirus and with the pandemic centered in Gran Canaria and Lanzarote who have 135 and 112 cases, respectively in the last 24 hours, and in fact, the two islands account for 75% of the new cases registered.
The Ministry of Health has said they will send medical staff to Lanzarote from the other islands if they can’t cope with the number of new cases and hospital admissions, as cases continue to increase on the island.
After yesterdays Governing Council meeting, they announced that Lanzarote is now in alert Level 4 restrictions due to the severity of the situation. El Hierro has also been moved up a level, from 1 to 2, as their situation has also worsened.
It has also been confirmed that the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria, in Tenerife, is carrying out a series of tests to find out if some samples of Covid-19 in the Canary Islands are from the British strain of the SARS-Cov-2 virus. Apparently, Iceland has reported through the Early Warning and Response System for communicable diseases in the European Union (EWRS) of four positive cases with the variant VOC 202012/01 (B.1.1.7) in tourists from of the Archipelago.
At the moment, the Government of the Canary Islands has no evidence that cases of the British strain have been detected in the islands.
Data for Friday 22nd January 2021:
New cases:
Total: 331
Gran Canaria: 135 (41%)
Lanzarote: 112 (34%)
Tenerife: 67 (20%)
Fuerteventura: 9
El Hierro: 6
La Palma: 1
La Gomera: 1
Current Incidence rate (IA7):
Canary Islands: 89.86 (1,935 cases over last 7 days)
Lanzarote: 363.13 (553)
El Hierro: 191.47 (21)
Gran Canaria: 105.85 (901)
Fuerteventura: 96.68 (113)
Tenerife: 37.37 (343)
La Palma: 3.63 (3)
La Gomera: 0.00 (0)
Current Incidence rate (IA14):
Canary Islands: 188.68 (4,063 cases over last 14 days)
Lanzarote: 732.82 (1,116)
El Hierro: 282.64 (31)
Fuerteventura: 212.17 (248)
Gran Canaria: 208.76 (1,777)
Tenerife: 94.03 (863)
La Gomera: 41.85 (9)
La Palma: 22.98 (19)
General:
Covid patients in hospital: 327 (+4)
Covid patients in ICU: 53 (+1)
Home isolation: 7,875
PCR positive rate: 6.79% (needs to be below 5)
R number: 1.14 (needs to be below 1)
Deaths last 24 hours: 1
Gran Canaria: 1 (151)
Total deaths: 490
Medical Discharges in last 24 hours:
Total: 286
Tenerife: 149
Gran Canaria: 50
Lanzarote: 82
Fuerteventura: 4
El Hierro: 1
La Gomera: 0
La Palma: 0
Total Active cases per island:
Total: 8,255
Tenerife: 4,312 (-82)
Gran Canaria: 2,712 (+84)
Lanzarote: 978 (+30)
Fuerteventura: 224 (+5)
El Hierro: 24 (+5)
La Palma: 4 (+1)
La Gomera: 1 (+1)
Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
2,474 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
1,963 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
1,279 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
888 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
224 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
222 in Arona (Tenerife)
139 in Adeje (Tenerife)
97 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
75 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
62 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
54 in Los Realejos (Tenerife)
24 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
23 in Valverde (El Hierro)
22 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
1 in San Sebastian (La Gomera)
Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents most infected and tourist areas.
