Lanzarote has closed its worst week since the start of the pandemic with all its municipalities at the highest level of risk, either due to accumulated incidence, incidence in people over 65 years of age, or, in most cases, both.
In the first days in which diagnoses began to skyrocket after Christmas, Tías was at the head in the incidence per number of inhabitants, reaching up to 27 positives in a single day. However, that growth has since been contained and has been far surpassed by Arrecife and also by San Bartolomé. In addition, Tinajo is approaching its figures, which until now had been one of the least affected municipalities, and in the last week has added 18 cases, seeing the incidence skyrocket in relation to its population.
Arrecife, with the highest incidence per inhabitant on the island, greatly exceeds the average number of infections in Spain
As for Arrecife, it is once again accumulating the highest incidence per inhabitant on the island, with figures that greatly exceed the average in Spain. Last week alone, the capital concentrated 349 positives, according to the latest detailed report from the Ministry of Health. This represents a cumulative incidence of 554 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days, when only two Spanish communities, Castilla y León and Extremadura, are currently above that figure, and the Spanish average is 379.
Behind Arrecife, and also entering critical figures, was San Bartolomé, which added 63 new cases in seven days. Followed by Teguise, with 61 new cases; Tías, with 59 (after improving its figures compared to the previous week); Yaiza with 20; Tinajo with 18 and Haría with 7.
These last two municipalities had been the only ones that had remained practically without cases most of the weeks since the beginning of the pandemic, but they have also suffered the effects of this third wave and the infections registered during the Christmas holidays.
Unleashed incidence in all municipalities
As for the accumulated incidence in relation to the population, behind Arrecife is now San Bartolomé, with 334 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days and 504 in fourteen days. It is followed by Tías, with 292 and 659, respectively; and Tinajo, with 286 in seven days and 350 in fourteen.
Immediately afterwards is Teguise, with a cumulative incidence of 273 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days and 407 in fourteen days. Far below, although also at the maximum risk level in the seven-day incidence, is Haría, with 136 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in one week and 156 in fourteen days (a very similar figure in both parameters because the previous week it had hardly had any cases), and finally Yaiza, with 120 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days and 187 in fourteen days.
This municipality is the only one on the island that does not have the highest risk rating in these two indicators (it is at "high risk" and the rest of the municipalities are at "very high risk"), but it does reach this level in the indicator for those over 65 years of age (with 254 cases per 100,000 inhabitants of this age group in the last week alone).
This situation is also repeated in all the other municipalities on the island, since most of the cases are occurring in this population group. Thus, all seven municipalities have the highest risk rating in the incidence in the elderly, both in the last seven days and in the last 14. In this case, the island's average is 349 cases per 100,000 inhabitants of this population group in the last seven days and 456 in fourteen.
Positivity also remains in the red, indicating the percentage of positives out of the total number of tests performed
The other parameter that remains in the red ("high risk") is that of positivity, that is, the number of tests that test positive for each PCR that is performed. Lanzarote was at 12.04% positivity this Monday, when the World Health Organization sets the limit at 5% to understand that the situation is not out of control. In the Canary Islands, the average positivity is 7.01%.
On the contrary, Lanzarote appears this Monday with one of the best traceability figures (which is the one that measures the tracking capacity, depending on the cases that can be assigned to a specific outbreak). This parameter stands at 81.43% in Lanzarote, compared to the average of 71.05% in the Canary Islands.
However, hospital capacity is also going through the most critical situation in Lanzarote, with the percentage of bed occupancy in the ICU rated with a level of "high risk" and that of beds on the ward at "medium risk"
