Lanzarote and La Graciosa will remain one more week in the lowest level of alert for coronavirus, together with the rest of the archipelago. This has been agreed by the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, which updated the levels this Thursday after the epidemiological report of the General Directorate of Public Health.
In the whole territory of the Autonomous Community, between October 27 and November 2, 555 new cases of Covid-19 were reported, which represents a decrease of around 4.3% in the daily average of new cases in relation to the previous week, in which 580 cases were registered.
However, despite this decrease, the average of the IA rate at 7 days in the Canary Islands as a whole and by islands increased "by around 11.3%", so that, from a daily average of 24.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, "it went to 27.6 cases in this last week."
By islands, Lanzarote is the only one that has remained constantly at a medium risk level, while Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, La Palma and La Gomera have oscillated between medium and low risk levels. For its part, El Hierro is at a very low risk level.
This same trend is observed in the IA at 14 days, whose daily average "has increased in greater or lesser proportion in all the islands", so that the whole of the Autonomous Community "is at medium risk in this indicator."
Given this evolution of the accumulated incidences, the Ministry of Health insists "on the importance of maintaining prevention measures on the use of masks in closed spaces, hand hygiene and interpersonal distance to avoid risks of transmission of COVID-19".
Hospitalizations and percentage of vaccinated people
In relation to healthcare indicators, the daily average of conventional hospital beds occupied during the last week by COVID-19 patients was "80, 2.6% more than the previous week". However, in all the islands the percentage of occupation "is at a very low risk level", except La Palma, which is at low risk.
The number of ICU beds occupied, for its part, continues and consolidates the decrease that began more than 2 months ago, with 17 occupied, one less than two weeks ago.
The median age of the total number of people hospitalized for Covid-19 in the last 14 days is 63 years, while the median age of the 5 people admitted to the ICU in the last 14 days is 54 years.
On the other hand, the cumulative incidence rate of Covid-19 cases in the last week "is 3.2 times higher in the population that has not received any dose of vaccine compared to the rate in the population that has received the complete regimen". Thus, while the IA rate at 7 days in the unvaccinated population is at medium risk, with 52.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, it is at low risk 16.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants among people with a complete regimen.