Canary Islands has registered so far a total of 2,386 accumulated cases of COVID-19, which is one more compared to Saturday. Of the total cases, 90 remain active. With data closed at 8:00 p.m., in the islands 2,134 people have been discharged after overcoming the coronavirus, ten of them in the last 24 hours, and the number of deaths remains one more day at 162.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, a total of 950 people have required hospitalization in the Canary Islands after testing positive for coronavirus, two in the last seven days. Of all of them, 184 have required admission to intensive care units (ICU). Of the total active cases, 73 are receiving assistance at home, 16 are hospitalized and one is admitted to the ICU.
Of the positives registered by the virus, which already affects some 57 municipalities, 1,293 are women and 1,093 are men. The number of healthcare professionals infected by COVID-19 since the beginning of the crisis is 587, which means 1.89% of the total staff of the Canary Health Service, which has 31,000 workers.
By islands, and following the item of the residence of the case, the one with the most accumulated positives is Tenerife, which has 1,499 cases; followed by Gran Canaria with 600 cases; La Palma, 106 cases; Lanzarote, 88 cases; Fuerteventura, 46 cases; La Gomera, 8 cases, and El Hierro, 3 cases.
There are 40 people who have been diagnosed and treated and are registered by area of declaration (the island in which the test has been analyzed) but it has not been possible to identify their area of residence because they may be tourists, port area workers or people without accommodation.
The deaths by islands are distributed as follows: 114 deaths in Tenerife; 6 in La Palma; 39 in Gran Canaria, and 6 in Lanzarote.
The Canary Health Service has carried out a total of 131,006 PCR tests (Polymerase Chain Reaction) for the diagnosis of COVID-19 since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak.
