The Canary Islands adds 115 new positive cases of coronavirus and four deaths in Tenerife in the last 24 hours

The Canary Islands registers 39.05 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days, while in 14 days it rises to 77.41

November 27 2020 (16:40 WET)
Updated in November 27 2020 (17:11 WET)
PCR Sampling During the Coronavirus Crisis
PCR Sampling During the Coronavirus Crisis

The Canary Islands has added 115 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, so the archipelago currently accumulates 20,724 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, and has had to regret four deaths, all of them in Tenerife, bringing the number of deaths to 335 in the islands.

Thus, of the total cases registered in the Canary Islands, 4,223 are active, which is 35 less than a day ago, according to data published by the Canary Islands Ministry of Health after 2:00 p.m.

Currently, of the active cases in the islands, 42 people are in an Intensive Care Unit (+3), 186 in hospital ward (-5) and 3,995 are isolated in their homes. Also, a total of 16,166 people (+146) have been discharged after contracting the coronavirus virus.

Regarding the accumulated incidence, the Canary Islands registers 39.05 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days, while in 14 days it rises to 77.41.

As for tests, a total of 576,010 tests have been carried out in the Canary Islands so far --2,792 in the last day--, of which 26,510 were positive, which represents 4.6 percent of the total.

By islands 

Regarding the cases of coronavirus by islands, Gran Canaria continues to lead in number of cases with 9,351 by adding 23 in the last 24 hours, of which 1,209 are active, while 127 people have died and 8,015 have overcome the disease.

Tenerife follows with 8,688 cases registered since the pandemic began (+76), of which 2,875 are active, 188 have died (+4) and 5,625 have been discharged.

After it is Lanzarote with 1,393 cases (+8), of which 53 are active, nine have perished and 1,331 people have overcome the disease.

Fuerteventura, on the other hand, has accumulated 897 cases (+5), of which 60 remain active, four have died and 833 have been discharged; La Palma remains with 213 cases, of which nine are active, six have died and 198 have overcome the disease.

La Gomera closes the list with 112 cases (+3), of which 14 are active, 98 have been discharged and has not had to regret deaths; while El Hierro has 69 cases, of which two are active, in addition to registering one death and 66 discharges.

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