Lanzarote provisionally adds 58 new positive cases of coronavirus, as reported by the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the island has accumulated 1,876 cases of covid.
As for the entire archipelago, the Health Department provisionally confirms 263 new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus. The total number of accumulated cases in the Canary Islands is 29,361.
By islands, Tenerife adds 72 new cases, bringing its accumulated cases to 14,301. Gran Canaria registers 87 new cases and 11,397 accumulated cases. Fuerteventura, with 32 new cases, has 1,147 accumulated cases. La Palma adds four new cases, bringing the accumulated cases to 326. La Gomera adds five new cases and its accumulated cases stand at 207. El Hierro adds five new cases, with 105 accumulated cases.
The Ministry of Health reminds that these data are provisional, since the Coordinating Center for Alerts and Emergencies does not receive epidemiological information from the Autonomous Communities on weekends and holidays, so today there will be no communication of complete data nor will the Grafcan website be updated, but rather these provisional data that will be reviewed and consolidated according to the protocols. The daily update will be active again tomorrow, Monday, January 11.
Echedo socio-health center
The Health Department reports that the five cases reported in El Hierro affect residents of the Echedo socio-health center and have been detected in the latest screening carried out in this nursing home. The El Hierro Health Services Management, in coordination with the El Hierro City Council, has reinforced health monitoring and sectorization measures with a doctor and a nurse in response to the Covid-19 outbreak reported in this center, with a total of 20 people affected. Of these, 3 are workers and 17 are residents, of whom one died and two remain in hospital.
