The Canary Islands registers 6,769 new cases of Covid coronavirus. The total of accumulated cases in the Canary Islands is 201,899 with 75,716 active, of which 70 are admitted to the ICU and 513 remain hospitalized. In the last hours the death of six people, four women and two men, between 62 and 87 years old has been reported. Of the total, four people died in Tenerife, one in Gran Canaria and one in Lanzarote, all were in hospital and had previous pathologies.
The Cumulative Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 1,420.21 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 2,629.56 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Due to an error in the data loading of the Grafcan portal, the IA at 14 days was not updated correctly yesterday, an error that was corrected from today.
By islands, Tenerife adds 3,431 cases with a total of 99,422 accumulated cases and 38,281 cases active epidemiologically; Gran Canaria has 71,718 accumulated cases, 2,123 more than the previous day and 26,127 active. Lanzarote adds 536 new cases with 14,402 accumulated and 5,171 active epidemiologically; Fuerteventura has 9,602 accumulated cases, with 309 new cases and 4,098 active. La Palma adds 305 new positives, so it has 4,706 accumulated and 1,638 active. La Gomera adds 37 new cases, so it has 1,166 accumulated and its assets are 255 and El Hierro adds 28 new positives, so its accumulated are 883 and has 146 active cases.
Until this day a total of 2,906,781 diagnostic tests have been carried out on the Islands, of which 17,669 correspond to the previous day.
After the change in the National Strategy for Early Detection, Surveillance and Control of Covid that occurred at the end of December and given the situation of high transmission throughout Spain, the Ministry of Health has agreed with the autonomous communities not to notify outbreaks by Covid, since the change in the Strategy responds to the need to prioritize health care for the vulnerable population, the detection and monitoring of this sector of the population at greater risk.
The objective is that the health systems have the capacity to differentiate between the care of people who have severe disease due to Covid from those who have mild symptoms, who quarantine at home without requiring health care.
