About thirty people have already undergone the coronavirus diagnostic test in Lanzarote and they have all tested negative in the latest count at 6:00 p.m. this Thursday, according to health sources. Thus, Lanzarote and El Hierro are the only Canary Islands where no positive case has been registered so far.
Most of the people who have been tested on the island were tested after contacting 112 as recommended by the Ministry of Health, in order not to go to the Emergency Room in order to prevent possible infections and avoid the collapse of this area. However, there have also been cases of patients who went to the hospital or who were already admitted to it for other pathologies.
In this regard, it should be remembered that, as La Voz already reported, among the first people to be tested in Lanzarote were a four-year-old boy who, after traveling to Italy, was isolated in his home; an Italian woman who was admitted to the Hospital with a hip fracture and who began to have a fever; a man who also went to the hospital with pneumonia after being in Valencia, and a woman who had been in contact with Italians.
Although all the tests carried out in Lanzarote have been negative, the Molina Orosa Hospital has enabled the old surgery ward, where the future Hemodynamics Unit is planned to be built, to attend to future positive cases if there are any. There, according to the sources consulted by La Voz, there are 16 beds available. There are also two isolation boxes in the Emergency Room.
To carry out the coronavirus diagnostic test in Lanzarote, the person must meet several requirements, which are having traveled to risk areas or having been in close contact with other people who have traveled or are infected, and presenting a respiratory clinic.
