The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands provisionally notifies 681 new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus. The total number of accumulated cases in the Canary Islands is 309,583 with 14,361 active, of which 35 are admitted to the ICU and 282 remain hospitalized. In the last hours, two deaths have been reported in Tenerife, pending validation by Public Health.
The Accumulated Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 403.78 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 843.03 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
By islands, Tenerife adds 346 cases with a total of 142,090 accumulated cases and 7,544 epidemiologically active cases; Gran Canaria has 116,875 accumulated cases, 229 more than the previous day and 5,101 active. Lanzarote adds 14 new cases with 20,890 accumulated and 451 epidemiologically active; Fuerteventura has 15,094 accumulated cases, with 20 new cases and 309 active. La Palma adds 45 new positives, so it has 10,632 accumulated and 693 active. La Gomera has 21 new positives, so its accumulated are 2,061 and has 189 active cases, and El Hierro adds 6 new cases, so it has 1,941 accumulated and its assets are 74.
To date, a total of 3,330,899 diagnostic tests have been carried out in the Islands, of which 3,908 correspond to the previous day.
The Ministry of Health recalls that these data published 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.
