The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has rectified this Wednesday the official data it had given for Lanzarote the previous day, reducing the confirmed cases on the island from seven to three. "After new tests, three false negatives and one indeterminate test were obtained," they point out in the new statement released this morning.
As La Voz de Lanzarote already clarified this Tuesday, the problem is that the Ministry of Health was confirming cases that had actually only tested positive in the first test, which is the one carried out on the island. However, another sample must then be sent to Madrid, to carry out a second analysis at the Carlos III Hospital, which is the reference center and where they are definitively confirmed or discarded. And in the case of Lanzarote, only three of the seven positives have ended up being confirmed, while a fourth is still under study.
Apparently, this situation has only occurred on this island, since it is the only one on which the Ministry has now made this rectification. In the rest, the number of cases confirmed the previous day by the Ministry of Health is maintained or increased. Thus, in Tenerife there have already accumulated 119 cases, in Gran Canaria 45, in Fuerteventura 6, in La Palma 5 and in La Gomera 3.
Regarding Lanzarote, no new positives have been registered in the last 24 hours either, according to the new official communication from the Ministry. Thus, the only confirmed cases are the first three cases that were known, corresponding to a couple of tourists who were staying in a hotel in Playa Blanca, and a third person about whom no information has been provided.
Regarding the Councilor for Health of Tías and doctor of the Emergency service of the Hospital, Laura Callero, she herself confirmed this Tuesday to La Voz that she had finally tested negative in the second test. In this way, both she and the rest of the health workers who were in isolation as a precaution, will be able to return to work.
