Lanzarote and La Graciosa will continue for one more week at alert level 1 together with La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro. This was agreed this Thursday by the Canary Islands Government Council, which only modified the level of Tenerife, lowering it from 3 to 2. In this way, Fuerteventura is the only one that will continue on alert 3, while Gran Canaria remains on 2, now together with Tenerife.
During the press conference after the meeting, the Deputy Minister of the Presidency, Antonio Olivera, highlighted the general improvement that continues to be recorded in the archipelago, pointing out Fuerteventura as the only exception.
"The evolution is worrying," he admitted when referring to that island, stressing that not only the incidence has increased again, but also the positivity, that is, the number of tests that test positive for each test that is carried out. In the case of both indicators, they more than double the average for the archipelago.
Specifically, positivity in Fuerteventura is close to 10%, while the Canary Islands average is 4%. The next island with the highest indicator is Lanzarote, which is at 4.74%.
Regarding the incidence, this Thursday in Fuerteventura it stands at 78.51 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 7 days, while the average for the archipelago is 33.13.
Regarding Lanzarote, the incidence has increased in the last week and is once again the second highest in the Canary Islands, again surpassing Tenerife and Gran Canaria. However, in those two islands, which continue at level 2, hospital pressure remains higher, since that indicator takes the longest to decrease after overcoming a stage of rebound in cases, as happened in both capitals.
