Today’s data from the Ministry of Health will not help as the Governing Council is deciding what extra restrictions to impose in Tenerife because of the upward trend in the incidence of the virus on the island. In total there are 184 new cases in the Canary Islands, of which 140 (76%) are in Tenerife. Santa Cruz now has more than 1,000 active cases, and there are now more active cases in the south of Tenerife than the whole of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera, and El Hierro combined.
Gran Canaria had 15 new cases today and there was also one Covid related death reported on the island of a 62-year-old woman, already in hospital because of the virus. Fuerteventura has 21 new cases, Lanzarote has 9, and there were none recorded in the other islands.
The incidence rate over 7 days for the archipelago is now 53.68 and the IA14 is 99.04, and Tenerife’s rates are the highest they have been since January with an IA7 of 98.64 and an IA14 of 170.58, which is more than double that of the next island, Fuerteventura.
The Ministry of Health have also notified of 101 new outbreaks this week in the Canary Islands with 613 people infected by them, of which 68 have occurred in Tenerife, 18 in Gran Canaria, eight in Fuerteventura, six in Lanzarote and one in El Hierro.
In general, all outbreaks have less than 10 associated cases except for seven of them, and one stands out in a hostel in Tenerife with 67 people affected (10 workers and 57 users and family members), two educational ones in Tenerife with 11 and 14 cases, three work related in Tenerife with 11, 11 and 10 people affected, and one work related one in Fuerteventura with 11 positives.
There was also one reported in a hotel in Fuerteventura with 11 cases (four workers and seven relatives), five in Tenerife: one with 11 positives in a restaurant, one in a business that affects 10 people, two with nine cases each registered in food companies and another with nine cases in a company dedicated to home care.
Of the five educational outbreaks, three are in Tenerife with 14, 11 and eight cases, one in Lanzarote with seven positives and one in Fuerteventura with five affected people.
23 old outbreaks are also being followed, some of which now have more people infected. An outbreak of work origin in Gran Canaria affects 40 people, a sports one linked to a football club in Tenerife has 30 cases, a social one also in Tenerife registers 24 positives, and another social one in Tenerife has 22 associated cases.
