The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands provisionally counts this Saturday 872 new cases of coronavirus COVID-19. The total of accumulated cases in the Canary Islands is 270,567 with 105,646 active, of which 72 are admitted to the ICU and 483 remain hospitalized. In the last hours the death of 12 people has been notified: seven in Gran Canaria, three in Tenerife, one in Fuerteventura and one in La Palma, pending validation by the General Directorate of Public Health.
The Cumulative Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 249.36 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 584.39 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
By islands, Tenerife adds 382 cases with a total of 125,395 accumulated cases and 49,207 epidemiologically active cases; Gran Canaria has 100,565 accumulated cases, 352 more than the previous day 47,172 active. Lanzarote adds 44 new cases with 18,867 accumulated and 1,378 epidemiologically active. Fuerteventura has 13,425 accumulated cases, with 25 new cases and 7,195 active. La Palma adds 58 new positives, so it has 9,016 accumulated and 484 active. El Hierro adds two new positives, so its accumulated are 1,682 and has 97 active cases and La Gomera adds nine new cases, so it has 1,617 accumulated and its assets are 113.
Until this day, a total of 3,174,809 diagnostic tests have been carried out in the Islands, of which 6,672 correspond to yesterday.
The Ministry of Health recalls that these data published on the Grafcan portal are provisional and are pending validation by the Public Health teams.
In this way, the dynamics of the Coordinating Center for Alerts and Emergencies is followed, which does not receive epidemiological information from the Autonomous Communities on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
Therefore, the data contained in this press release may vary once they are epidemiologically reviewed and consolidated by the General Directorate of Public Health according to the established protocols, so in the coming days there may be discrepancies in the updating of the data contained in the Grafcan website.
