The Canary Islands has registered a total of 16,815 cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, increasing in the last 24 hours by 171 --from 3,768 PCR--, during which time it has also had to mourn two deaths in Tenerife, bringing the number of deaths from this virus in the archipelago to 271.
This is clear from the data that the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands publishes daily at around 2:00 p.m. They show that of the total number of cases registered in the archipelago, 6,321 are currently active in the islands.
Of the active cases of Covid-19 in the Canary Islands, 45 people are in an Intensive Care Unit (+1), 227 remain on the hospital floor (-5) and the remaining 6,054 are in home isolation.
As for the patients who have overcome the disease in the islands, they stand at 10,223, which implies 18 more people in the last 24 hours.
Regarding the PCR tests carried out in the Canary Islands since the beginning of the pandemic, there are currently 467,100 --3,768 only during yesterday--, with a positive sample rate of 4.51%.
The islands
By islands, Gran Canaria has recorded a total of 8,584 cases since the beginning of the health crisis (70 more than a day ago), of which 2,922 are active, 5,554 have overcome the disease and 108 have died.
It is followed in number of cases by Tenerife with 5,901 (+78), of which 3,220 are active, 2,537 have been discharged from hospital and 144 have died (+2).
Lanzarote, for its part, is the third island with the most cases recorded, amounting to 1,222 cases (+1), of which 78 are active positives, 1,135 have overcome the disease and nine have died.
After it is Fuerteventura with 755 cases since the beginning of the pandemic (+14), of which 64 are active, while 688 overcame the virus and three died.
La Palma registers 192 cases (no variation), five of them active positives, 181 medical discharges and six deaths; and La Gomera registers 88 cases (no variation), of which 12 are active and 76 have been discharged from hospital.
Finally, El Hierro registers 72 cases (+8), of which 19 are active and 52 have overcome the virus, while one person has died. Thus, La Gomera is the only island that has not registered deaths.
