The Canary Islands are currently approaching 600,000 PCR tests, specifically 596,262, carried out since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic last March, according to data published by the Ministry of Health collected by Europa Press.
Thus, of these samples, 4.62% --27,550-- have been positive, while in the last seven days 16,955 PCRs have been carried out, resulting in 4.81% positive, which represents a total of 830.
By islands, 301,622 PCR tests have been carried out in Tenerife, 9,024 of them in the last week; ahead of Gran Canaria, which has 213,388 tests, 5,808 in the last week; and Lanzarote, where 37,990 tests have been carried out, 798 of them in seven days.
Meanwhile, La Palma has registered 18,458 PRCs, 662 of them in seven days; Fuerteventura 15,372, 437 of them in seven days; La Gomera 6,528, 163 of them in seven days; and El Hierro 2,904 tests, 63 of them in the last week.
Regarding the accumulated incidence, in the Canary Islands it is currently at 46.76 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days, a figure that rises to 86.33 cases in the last fourteen days.