While the incidence of Covid-19 in Lanzarote is already at “low risk” both at 7 and 14 days, the average for the archipelago has entered high risk in both indicators and two islands are even at maximum risk. One of them is Tenerife, which has climbed a new risk level, and the other is El Hierro. In the case of the latter, it is at “very high risk” in the accumulated incidence at 7 days, although at 14 days it remains at “medium risk”, according to the latest detailed report from the Ministry of Health. In fact, in both indicators El Hierro has the same incidence, 134.57 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, since the previous week it had not registered any positive cases.
For its part, Fuerteventura is at “high risk” in both indicators, with 116.93 and 174.56 respectively, while Gran Canaria is at “medium” risk, with 49.91 and 69.55. For its part, Tenerife has already reached 161.32 at 7 days and 265.56 at 14 days, both at “very high” risk.
Behind Gran Canaria is Lanzarote, which has become the third island in the archipelago with the lowest incidence. The accumulated incidence at 7 days on the island this Monday is 24.38 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days it is 49.42, both on the limit to be at low risk (medium risk starts from 25 and 50). La Gomera is at the same level, with 13.8 and 23.06, while La Palma is the only one that is at “minimum” risk, with 5.99 and 9.55.
As for the average for Canary Islands, it is at “high” risk in both indicators, with 97.7 at 7 days and 155.1 at 14 days. In addition, positivity is also increasing, as 6.47% of the tests being carried out are giving positive results.
Indicator measuring case tracking falls
Regarding traceability, which is the one that measures the tracking that is achieved of the cases, it is at medium risk in the Canary Islands and has been decreasing significantly in recent weeks, with an average of 61.34%, when during most of the pandemic it exceeded 80 and even 90%.
In this case, Lanzarote is this Monday among the worst placed islands, with a traceability of 60.53%. Behind it are only Tenerife, with 53.81%, and La Palma, with 40%, although in the case of the latter, it has barely had any positives. Specifically, what traceability measures is the number of cases that are associated with an outbreak and therefore determine its origin.
In La Gomera this indicator is at 100%, in El Hierro at 93.3%, in Fuerteventura at 87.14% and in Gran Canaria at 78.22%, all of them well above the Lanzarote data.
The worst data of the pandemic but without the same hospital pressure
Despite the fact that the Canary Islands are experiencing their worst moments of the pandemic in terms of the number of cases detected, this is not translating into the same hospital pressure that has been experienced in other waves of Covid-19.
In the case of ICU occupancy, Tenerife is at “medium” risk, while the rest of the islands are at “minimum” risk. In fact, with the exception of Tenerife itself and Gran Canaria, there are no patients admitted to the critical care unit in the rest. As for occupancy on the ward, Tenerife is at low risk and the rest also at “minimum” risk.
This change has occurred after the progress of the vaccination campaign and also due to the age of most of the people who are now contracting the disease, which means that they generally develop less severe symptoms.
However, among the newly infected there are also people over 65 years of age, especially on the islands of Tenerife, Fuerteventura and El Hierro, which are at “medium” risk in this indicator. As for Lanzarote, it is at “low” risk, since some positives have been detected in older people, although proportionally they are the minority.
In addition, although with a great difference compared to other critical moments that the archipelago has experienced, deaths continue to be recorded, with an average of almost one per day.