The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands provisionally notifies this Sunday of 556 new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus. The total number of accumulated cases in the Canary Islands is 108,453 with 6,876 active, of which 46 are admitted to the ICU and 238 remain hospitalized. In the last hours, the death of three people in the Canary Islands has been reported, pending validation by Public Health.
The Cumulative Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 134.06 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 253.87 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
By islands, Tenerife adds 273 cases today with a total of 51,006 accumulated cases; Gran Canaria has 41,625 accumulated cases, 197 more than the previous day. Lanzarote adds 21 new cases with 7,807 accumulated; Fuerteventura has 5,714 accumulated cases, with 61 new cases. La Palma adds four new positives, bringing the total to 1,347 accumulated. La Gomera does not register new positives, so it has 479 accumulated. El Hierro does not add new positives either, so its accumulated are 474.
To date, a total of 2,482,578 diagnostic tests have been carried out in the Islands, of which 3,343 correspond to the previous day.
The Ministry of Health recalls that these data published this Sunday on the Grafcan portal are provisional and are pending validation by the Public Health teams. In this way, the dynamics of the Coordinating Center for Alerts and Emergencies is followed, which does not receive epidemiological information from the Autonomous Communities on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
Therefore, the data contained in this press release may vary once they are epidemiologically reviewed and consolidated by the General Directorate of Public Health according to the established protocols, so discrepancies may arise in the coming days in the updating of the data contained in the Grafcan website.
