Active cases in the Canary Islands are skyrocketing, reaching in the last day the record of positives in a single day during the entire pandemic: 1,207. In addition, in the last hours three deaths have been reported in the Canary Islands: two men, 78 and 67 years old in Tenerife, and a 91-year-old woman in Gran Canaria. All three suffered from previous pathologies and remained in hospital.
The Cumulative Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 202.58 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 324.46 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
By islands, Tenerife adds 792 cases and Gran Canaria has 270 more than the previous day. Lanzarote adds 60 new ones, while Fuerteventura has 70 new cases. La Palma adds nine new positives, while La Gomera and El Hierro add two and four new cases respectively.
As of this Wednesday, a total of 2,511,315 diagnostic tests have been carried out in the Islands, of which 10,962 correspond to Tuesday.
The total number of accumulated cases in the Canary Islands is 110,910 with 8,612 active, of which 52 are admitted to the ICU and 257 remain hospitalized.
Health analyzes the increase in cases
Health analyzes the increase in cases that has been registered in recent days, and that this Wednesday exceeds 1,000. According to the Government of the Canary Islands, this responds to the greater mobility and socialization that has been taking place since the beginning of December, following an ascending and continuous evolution in the last week, whose trend is being analyzed by Public Health. A pattern of increase that is also observed in other autonomous communities since the greater number of positives each day generates an increase in tracking, so the detection of new cases is also accumulating.
The epidemiologists of the General Directorate of Public Health are analyzing the trend and variability of the behavior of the transmission of the coronavirus, since the diagnostic capacity has doubled in the last week.
In this sense, they assure that the health system is having diagnostic capacity so that it has been possible to detect the new cases with the realization of an average of 7,570 daily PCRs, on Tuesday more than 10,000. In this sense, Public Health analyzes recent outbreaks resulting from social and family gatherings that are increasing in the number of cases. In recent weeks, although a number of outbreaks similar to this week had been recorded, they contained fewer associated cases.
An example is reflected in the record of last week with only two outbreaks with more than 10 associated cases while this week there are already 8 outbreaks with more than 13 cases linked to each of them.