Canary Islands has registered so far a total of 2,365 accumulated cases of COVID-19, which is two more than this Tuesday when there were 2,363. Of the total cases, 156 remain active. With data closed at 8:00 p.m., in the islands 2,048 people have been discharged after overcoming the coronavirus, 20 in the last 24 hours, and the number of deaths remains one more day at 161.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, a total of 949 people have required hospitalization in the Canary Islands after testing positive for coronavirus, four in the last seven days. Of all of them, 180 have required admission to intensive care units (ICU). Of the total active cases, 5 people remain in the ICU, 24 on the ward and 127 at home.
Of the positives registered by the virus, which already affects some 56 municipalities, 1,287 are women and 1,078 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 Canarian 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 1,494 cases; followed by Gran Canaria with 591 cases; La Palma, 100 cases; Lanzarote, 86 cases, Fuerteventura, 45 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: 110 deaths in Tenerife; 6 in La Palma; 39 in Gran Canaria, and 6 in Lanzarote.
More open data
The Ministry of Health has taken a further step in terms of transparency and opens new data on the management and monitoring of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis to citizens, adding to the web portal information on all PCR tests carried out in the archipelago since the beginning of the outbreak with graphs according to their result: positive, negative and inconclusive.
Until now, the website included positive cases according to the patient's place of residence and according to the place of declaration of the case; information on the distribution of positives by municipalities; the number of deaths by locality; the count of epidemiologically closed cases; the data of active cases by municipality including their distribution by type of hospitalization and graphs with the distribution of positives by sex and by age group and with the evolution of positive, deceased and closed cases since January 31, the date on which the first positive was declared in the Canary Islands and throughout Spain, on the island of La Gomera.
Suspected cases
The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, adapting to the new protocol of the Ministry of Health, has reported that the professionals of the Canarian Health Service (SCS) have detected in their tracking work a total of 295 suspected cases of COVID-19 until 8:00 p.m. yesterday.
The new protocol of the Ministry establishes that "any person with a clinical picture of acute respiratory infection of sudden onset of any severity that occurs, among others, with fever, cough or sensation of shortness of breath will be considered a suspected case. Other atypical symptoms will be assessed (loss of taste, loss of smell, diarrhea, muscle pain, etc.) under clinical criteria as possible suspects".
The protocol establishes that these people should be studied with PCR in the following 24 hours. So this index is not cumulative but these people will become either positive cases or negative cases in a period of between 24 and 72 hours, which is the time it takes to perform tests, transfer, microbiological treatment and notification.
Diagnostic tests
The Canarian Health Service (SCS) has performed a total of 111,845 PCR tests (Polymerase Chain Reaction) for the diagnosis of COVID-19 since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak.
The Ministry of Health insists on the importance of maintaining the rules to avoid infections. It warns of the need to comply with hygiene rules to avoid outbreaks of the pandemic. One of the main sources of contagion that must be addressed at this time are intrafamily ones.
In this sense, it recalls that security measures must be extreme in family visits and in coexistence itself, keeping safety distances, not sharing elements such as cutlery and using a mask if necessary.
The Ministry reminds that the use of masks is already mandatory for all people over six years of age when it is not possible to maintain the interpersonal distance of two meters in public spaces, both closed and outdoors.
Likewise, hygienic and surgical masks that cover the nose and mouth are also recommended for children between 3 and 5 years old. Its use will not be required in people who have some type of respiratory difficulty, those who have duly justified health reasons or those who, due to their situation of disability or dependence, present behavioral alterations that make it unfeasible.
