Lanzarote and La Graciosa remain for another week at alert level 3 due to Covid, although the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands indicates that the evolution of healthcare capacity indicators should continue to be closely observed in the coming days "in case there is a high-impact change at the hospital level."
This Thursday, the health alert levels have been updated, following the epidemiological report from the General Directorate of Public Health with consolidated data as of January 26. The only change reflected in the report is on the island of La Gomera, which rises to alert level 3 "due to the unfavorable evolution of its epidemiological indicators." The rest of the islands maintain the same alert level they were at.
This means that Tenerife, Gran Canaria, and La Palma remain at alert level 4; and Fuerteventura, El Hierro, and Lanzarote, where La Graciosa is epidemiologically included, remain at level 3.
The change in level for the island of La Gomera will take effect at 00:00 hours on Monday, January 31 (on the night from Sunday to Monday), subject to periodic re-evaluations. The Island presents all accumulated incidence indicators "at a very high risk level," and in terms of healthcare capacity, it presents one of the indicators at high risk. Due to the unique characteristics of its small population and health area, the determination of risk levels requires the assessment of complementary indicators.
In the Autonomous Community as a whole, between January 18 and 24, 17,026 new cases of Covid were reported, which represents a reduction of around 47.8% in the daily average of new cases compared to the previous week. These data correspond to the 49.2% decrease in the Accumulated Incidence (AI) at 7 days in the Canary Islands. From a weekly average of 1,539.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, it went to 782.5 cases this week.
The only increase is observed in El Hierro, which increases by 26.2%, while the island with the largest decrease in incidence at 7 days is Lanzarote, which drops by 63.9%. However, all the islands are at a very high risk level in this indicator, as is the case with the AI at 7 days in people over 65 years of age and in the AI at 14 days, which are at very high risk in all the islands, although both indicators show decreases of 39% and 21.4%, respectively.
Healthcare Indicators
Regarding healthcare indicators, the daily average of occupied conventional hospital beds increases by 17.3% compared to the previous week and is at high risk. The percentage of occupancy in Tenerife, Gran Canaria, and Lanzarote is at a very high risk level; in Fuerteventura and La Palma at high risk; and in La Gomera and El Hierro at medium risk.
The number of occupied ICU beds maintains the upward trend, increasing by 8.6 percent compared to the previous evaluation. The percentage of occupancy in the Archipelago as a whole is 22.3%. Tenerife and Gran Canaria are at a very high risk level, Fuerteventura remains at a medium risk level, while the rest of the islands are in controlled circulation.
Median Age
The median age of all people hospitalized for Covid-19 in the last 30 days is 71 years and 65 years for those admitted to the ICU, all being over 16 years of age; while the median age of those who died in the last 30 days is 80 years, with a range from 44 to 90 years.
41.2% of people admitted to critical care units diagnosed during the last 30 days had not received the full vaccination schedule, a high percentage considering that only 18.5 percent of the population over 5 years of age has not yet been vaccinated.
81% of people admitted for Covid and diagnosed in the last 30 days had no previous pathologies. This percentage increases in unvaccinated patients, in whom 86.1% had no other known pathologies, a significant figure considering that only 18.5 percent of the population over 5 years of age in the Archipelago is without complete vaccination.
