Despite the fact that the epidemiological situation has improved, the pandemic is still far from over, and eleven municipalities in the Canary Islands still have very high incidence rates over seven and fourteen days, in both the general population and those over 65 years of age, and have a high risk of contagion in those areas.
Currently, the highest risk indicator for contagion is in the Gran Canaria town of Mogán, with an incidence rate over 7 days of 351 and 72 new infections in the last week, according to the new epidemiological report issued yesterday by the regional government.
In second place is Arona in the south of Tenerife, with an IA7 of 323 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The third municipality with the highest incidence is La Victoria de Acentejo, also in Tenerife, with 272 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
These three municipalities have all their parameters related to the transmission of the virus at very high risk; as do eight others from the archipelago. In Gran Canaria, Agüimes, with an IA7 of 134 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and Ingenio, with 201 cases, are both also in this situation.
In Tenerife, the spread of the virus is also a very high risk in Adeje (with an IA7 of 232), Granadilla de Abona (191), Icod (137), Guía de Isora (178) and San Miguel de Abona (138), along with Arona and La Victoria de Acentejo. Santa Cruz and La Laguna now have lower incidence rates than all of these as their data is decreasing, and their risk levels have been reduced.
Outside the capital islands, only the town of Pájara in Fuerteventura has all its indicators at high risk of transmission, with an accumulated infection rate over seven days of 262 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
THE SITUATION IS IMPROVING… SLOWLY:
However, the situation is gradually improving and last Friday there were 20 towns that had their indicators at extreme risk; among them Telde, Santa Brígida, La Laguna and La Orotava.
Despite the continued fall in the transmission of the virus since August 3rd, this decrease has not yet been appreciated in the number of critically ill patients and deaths caused by the fifth wave.
This Tuesday Health reported the death of three infected people: a 49-year-old woman in Gran Canaria and, in Tenerife, a 91-year-old woman and an 87-year-old man, who contracted the virus in a family outbreak.
On the other hand, the ICUs of the Canarian hospitals have once again reached their highest occupancy during the pandemic with 107 Covid patients. The greatest healthcare pressure is borne by the Tenerife hospitals, which care for 61 infected people. The island hospital of Fuerteventura has two critical Covid patients, while in the hospital of La Gomera there is an infected in the ICU and the one in Lanzarote is treating a person for serious Covid.
