The number of accumulated cases of coronavirus in the Canary Islands has already risen to 348, adding 61 new positives in the last 24 hours. In addition, the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has also confirmed the fifth death in the islands, an elderly person with previous serious pathologies who died in Tenerife.
In the last three days, the number of cases has almost doubled in the Canary Islands, since last Tuesday there were 181 positives.
This latest statistic also includes the first positive on the island of El Hierro, detected during the night of Thursday, where until now there had been no case.
These data released at 9:30 p.m. by the Ministry are not detailed by islands, and we will have to wait until this Saturday to know the figures for the cases for each of the islands.
