As the UK relaxes restrictions and reaches a landmark of vaccinations, the Canary Islands seem to have entered a fourth wave of the pandemic without having managed to reduce the transmission rate of the third, whose peak was registered in mid-January. In the last week, the accumulated incidence in the archipelago has risen by 13.89 points, from 59.50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to the 73.39 registered yesterday.
This rise in transmission was also seen in the 239 new cases confirmed yesterday. The highest number of daily infections recorded on a Monday since January 25th, at the height of the third wave, when 253 infections were reported, and during the past week 1,635 infections were diagnosed in the archipelago, compared to 1,241 reported the week before which represents an increase of 31%.
This moderate rebound in the transmission of the virus could be the anticipation of the fourth wave that epidemiologists are already talking about, or simply the reflection in the epidemic curve of the increase in personal encounters during Easter. In any case, what is certain is that infections have increased.
