The Canary Islands Adds 9 Deaths and 954 Infections Among People Over 60 Years of Age in Three Days

The Canary Islands has registered 954 new infections of covid-19 among people over 60 years of age in the last three days, and has counted nine deaths, aged between 68 and 104 years, with previous pathologies and who were in hospital.

Currently there are 303 people admitted to hospital with coronavirus in the archipelago, of which 28 are in the ICU and the rest, 275, are on the ward. This indicator is updated following the criteria of care capacity established by the new surveillance and control strategy, regardless of active admissions.

The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands explains in a statement that it will now only report cases among this population group, following the new indicators included in the aforementioned strategy, agreed by the Ministry of Health with the autonomous communities.

Thus, the accumulated number of cases among those over 60 years of age in the Canary Islands amounts to 48,733 people; the accumulated incidence at 14 days is 807.1 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 7 days is 361.9.

With the entry into force of the new indicators of the surveillance and control strategy, which prioritise data on care capacity over global data on total cases and accumulated incidences, the Grafcan epidemiological data viewer will no longer be active from today, Friday.