The Canary Islands Government Council has reviewed this Thursday the epidemiological indicators of each island and has decided to keep all of them at the alert level they were already at. Thus, Lanzarote will continue at level 2, despite being at “high risk” for several days both in the accumulated incidence at 7 days and at 14 days.
“It is true that in Lanzarote there is a considerable number of cases that is striking, but it is known that most of the infections come from a single source. And without detracting from the number, it allows us to think that the scope of the pandemic is located at that point”, said the Government spokesman, Julio Pérez, referring to the outbreak in a gym in Arrecife.
In fact, he pointed out that there is greater “concern” in the Canary Islands Government about the situation in Tenerife, despite the fact that Lanzarote doubles its incidence figures in relation to the population. Specifically, Tenerife has this Thursday an accumulated incidence at 7 days of 48.68 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to 101.4 in Lanzarote. And at 14 days, Tenerife is at 99.83 and Lanzarote at 195.75
“According to epidemiological criteria, it seems that greater importance should be given and more attention should be generated by our services to the situation in Tenerife, because the infections are disseminated”, Julio Pérez specified, adding that the cases on that island are “more dispersed, occur in different locations and that number of infections cannot be grouped together.”
Regarding the archipelago as a whole, the Government spokesman pointed out that “the general data remains reasonably positive”, but pointed out that they still expect “improvements”. “We cannot say that this is the situation with which we are going to be satisfied”, he warned.
Along with Lanzarote and Tenerife, Gran Canaria is also at alert level 2, while Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma remain at level 1.
