The Ministry of Health has notified of 219 new cases of coronavirus today, meaning that the total number of infections has now reached 40,059 since the pandemic began. Active cases have dropped below 6,000 to 5,947 with 84 Covid patients admitted to ICU and 269 in wards.
In the last 24 hours, five deaths have been reported: two in Tenerife, two in Gran Canaria and one in Lanzarote, although the latter will be added to statistics once it is validated.
The deceased are a 76-year-old man and an 85-year-old woman from Tenerife; and two women in Gran Canaria aged 80 and 86, both linked to family outbreaks. All of them were already admitted to hospital and suffered from previous pathologies.
