The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has decided to maintain the health alert levels the same as the previous week on all the islands "due to the stabilization of the indicators." In this way, Lanzarote and La Graciosa will continue at level 1 together with La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, while Tenerife and Gran Canaria will remain at level 2 and Fuerteventura at level 3.
In the case of Lanzarote, unlike what happens in the rest of the archipelago, the Ministry points out that "in the last two weeks it has shown an upward, but controlled, trend, due to the fact that high traceability is maintained." Traceability is the indicator that measures the cases in which the origin of the contagion can be determined, and in Lanzarote it is currently at 70%.
The weekly report of the General Directorate of Public Health reflects that “in the Autonomous Community as a whole, between September 15 and 21, 623 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported, which represents a decrease of around 18% in the daily average of cases reported in relation to the previous week.”
Regarding Fuerteventura, the General Directorate of Public Health "closely observes the situation" and emphasizes that in the last four days an "incipient improvement in transmission indicators" is beginning to be seen, so it is foreseeable that if this decrease consolidates, next week the island may drop in level.
The average of the accumulated incidence rate at 7 days in the Autonomous Community as a whole and in the islands decreases, around 13.4% compared to the previous week. The greatest decrease is observed on the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria. In general, therefore, the trend has been decreasing in the last 15 days.
The daily average of the 14-day IA rate decreases in greater or lesser proportion in all the islands and, therefore, also in the Autonomous Community as a whole (18%), and remains at medium risk since August 30; only El Hierro, La Palma and La Gomera are at low or very low risk for this
indicator.
Regarding healthcare pressure indicators, the Ministry of Health remarks that the number of conventional beds occupied by Covid-19 patients remains stable in the Autonomous Community as a whole with a daily average of 165 occupied beds (3% occupancy, low risk). The number of occupied ICU beds continues and consolidates the decrease that began four weeks ago.
On the other hand, the number of daily deaths increases compared to last week from 1 to 2 daily deaths on average. In total, 12 deaths were recorded this last week, 6 in Tenerife, 5 in Gran Canaria (the only island in which there were more deaths than in the previous one in which there were no deaths) and 1 person in La Palma.
The median age of the total number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the last 14 days is 65.5 years, decreasing 6.5 years compared to the previous evaluation. The median age of people admitted to the ICU in the last 14 days is 61 years.
Vaccination and hospitalizations
Of the 83 people admitted to conventional beds in the last two weeks, 49.4% did not have the complete vaccination schedule. 80% of the people admitted to critical care units during the last two weeks had not received the complete vaccination schedule. In addition, 48.4% of people admitted for COVID and diagnosed in the last 14 days had no previous pathologies, this percentage increases in unvaccinated patients in whom 61.8% had no other known pathologies.
The cumulative incidence rate of COVID-19 cases in the last week is four 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 schedule. In addition, there is a gradient in the IA7d rate between vaccinated people, those who have received one dose and those who have not been vaccinated. Thus, while the IA7d rate in the unvaccinated population is at medium risk (69 cases/105 inhabitants), it is 22.4 in those who have only received one dose and 17.3 among people with a complete schedule, very low risk.
