The Minister of Health of the Canary Islands, Blas Trujillo, has announced that Tenerife will drop to alert level 2 from this Tuesday, after a review of its indicators was carried out today. The evaluation is usually done on Thursdays in the Governing Council, but in the case of this island, it was already announced last week that an extraordinary evaluation would be carried out on Tuesday.
Tenerife, which was the only island that remained on alert level 3, after Gran Canaria dropped last Thursday, will remain at level 2 until May 11, when its indicators will be reviewed again "to check whether it remains at that level or whether any changes should be made".
According to the epidemiological report prepared by the General Directorate of Public Health of the Canary Islands Health Service, the average number of cases diagnosed on the island went from 97 in the period between April 14 and 27 to an average of 75 in the last six days.
In addition, since April 25, the Cumulative Incidence (IA) is at medium risk and with a downward trend. The IA at 7 days on the island was at high risk from March 10, where it remained until the 24th. With an average for this period of 78.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, on April 26 it began to decline to around 72 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, indicating a medium risk of virus transmission, a trend that continues.
"The behavior of this rate in people over 65 has been in parallel, and after being in high risk for some days, it decreased, going from an average of 46.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the previous two weeks to 28 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last five days," the Ministry of Health highlights.
However, they add that "although the IA at 7 days in Tenerife is at medium risk, it is the highest of all the islands and, therefore, is above the average of the Autonomous Community".
As for the average number of patients admitted for Covid-19 on the island between April 14 and May 2 is 113, slightly lower than in recent days, which implies a low risk. "However, the hospital pressure is mainly focused on the critical units, although their percentage of occupancy is decreasing and is at medium risk, although in the last two days the absolute numbers seem to be rising again," they warn.
