The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has reported this Tuesday a total of 3,959 positive cases of coronavirus, the highest number of infections since the pandemic began, bringing the total to 138,871. In the last few hours, the death of three people in Tenerife has been reported, two men aged 78 and 74 with previous pathologies and a 40-year-old woman without known previous pathologies, all three remained in hospital admission.
In total there are 32,847 active cases of which 67 are in ICU (+5) and 327 in plant (-4).
By islands, Tenerife once again leads the infections with 2,314 cases this Tuesday, increasing its active cases to 19,142 --almost 60% of the archipelago-- and the accumulated cases to 69,514, while Gran Canaria reports 1,193 cases and places the accumulated cases at 50,009, 9,624 of them active.
Lanzarote adds 204 cases this Tuesday, bringing its accumulated number to 9,335, of which 1,460 are active, and Fuerteventura registers 112 new infections, which raise its active cases to 1,859 and the accumulated cases to 6,816 infections.
La Palma, for its part, adds 79 cases, bringing its accumulated number to 1,853, of which 407 remain active; La Gomera reports 42 cases, raising its accumulated number to 755, with 260 active, and El Hierro adds 14 cases, with 584 accumulated and 92 active.
The Cumulative Incidence (IA) continues to rise and stands at 841.42 cases per 100,000 inhabitants at 7 days and 1332.43 cases at 14 days.
As of this Tuesday, a total of 2,691,429 diagnostic tests have been carried out on the islands with a positive rate of 19.21%.
