48.53% of the active cases of Covid in Lanzarote correspond to tourists, as confirmed to La Voz from the Health area of Lanzarote. “The summer average has been increasing”, they point out, noting that the percentage started with about 28% and now is close to 50%.
In fact, of the 19 positives reported this Monday, 10 corresponded to people who were on vacation in Lanzarote. That was what caused the peak recorded on that day, when the average had been below 10 daily cases and even with only one the day before.
Already in the past Holy Week that increase of cases in tourists was noticed, reaching almost 40%, although now that percentage is being surpassed by far, having also increased the influx of visitors to the island.
Until this summer, removing the periods of greater tourist activity, the average had been around 12%, since the previous tests that are required to enter the island have never completely stopped the arrival of imported cases.
The positives of pateras are left out of the statistics
As for the positives that are detected in migrants arriving in pateras, they are not included in the general statistics, as La Voz had already been reporting. This has been confirmed again by the Ministry of Health, which explains that these cases are counted separately. And it is that in addition to being imported cases, these people are isolated from their arrival until they are tested, so possible local infections are discarded.
In this way, understanding that they do not influence the level of risk of the island, an independent count of these cases is carried out, so as not to affect the indicators of accumulated incidence in the archipelago, which are those that determine the internal restrictions and also those imposed from other countries to possible tourist destinations.
