The Canary Islands added a total of 2,176 new cases of coronavirus this Wednesday. In addition, in the last hours the death of four people between 77 and 92 years old has been reported. Of the total number of deaths, two were registered in Gran Canaria, one in Tenerife and another in La Palma. All had previous pathologies and were in hospital.
The Accumulated Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 354.97 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 610.91 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
By islands, Tenerife adds 821 cases with a total of 6,902 cases that are epidemiologically active; Gran Canaria has 1,030 more than the previous day and 8,272 active. Lanzarote adds 129 new cases with 389 epidemiologically active; Fuerteventura has 126 new cases and 1,382 active. La Palma adds 56 new positives, bringing the total to 363 active. El Hierro adds a new case and its assets are 20, and La Gomera adds 13 new positives, so it has 84 active cases.
As of this Wednesday, a total of 3,234,414 diagnostic tests have been carried out in the Islands, of which 7,406 correspond to Tuesday.
The total number of accumulated cases in the Canary Islands is 282,968 with 17,412 active, of which 45 are admitted to the ICU and 307 remain hospitalized, which continues the downward trend in hospital bed occupancy indicators that began in recent weeks, which are currently the ones that define the level of risk.
Data update in the Epidemiological registration system
The General Directorate of Public Health is carrying out an update in the ReVeca registration system, of the diagnostic tests by means of self-tests, whose positive result had been registered in the clinical history information systems but were not fully updated in the Epidemiology computer network. The Ministry of Health, given the high transmissibility recorded at the beginning of January, admitted positive self-tests as a valid test for the diagnosis of Covid-19. As they were not authorized until that moment, positive self-tests could not be registered directly in the existing computer system until now, which has caused a delay in their notification.
They point out from Sanidad that during this week, the database will continue to be updated with the positive cases detected by self-test pending notification, which will affect both the total number of tests carried out and the accumulated cases and the assets that are pending epidemiological discharge, without interfering in the risk levels of the islands as they are mostly cases that are already closed.
