The number of groups in quarantine due to Covid in Lanzarote's educational centers has decreased by 60% in the last two weeks. Currently, there are only four classrooms confined compared to the 10 there were fifteen days ago, out of the total of 1,296 on the island, as confirmed by the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands.
Last week, there were 24 positive cases among the 24,740 students on the island, in addition to another four among teachers, out of the 1,293 teachers in Lanzarote.
According to La Voz, several of the cases corresponded to the educational community of a center in Tías, although the Health Department has confirmed that it is not an outbreak. In this regard, it should be remembered that for an outbreak to be declared, there must be at least three related cases, and in this case, it is denied that this is the case.
Decline in the Canary Islands as a whole
In the Canary Islands as a whole, until last Friday there were 39 classrooms in quarantine due to Covid, which represented 0.2% of the total number of groups in Infant, Primary, Secondary and Baccalaureate schools in public, subsidized and private schools in the Canary Islands, which amount to a total of 17,000.
Thus, a decrease has also been recorded, since two weeks earlier the percentage of educational groups in isolation amounted to 0.4%.
Regarding the cases, the Ministry of Health pointed out that 304 positive cases had been registered among the more than 330,000 students enrolled in the archipelago in the last week, while 54 cases had been detected among the more than 32,000 teachers.