Covid update: Active cases drop by almost 5,000 over the weekend

Covid update: Active cases drop by almost 5,000 over the weekend

2/28/22, 8:52 AM By Canarian Weekly Health

According to data from the Ministry of Health, there have been 2,397 new cases, 8 deaths, and active cases have dropped by 4,894 to 14,307 people with the virus in the islands. This drop is down to consolidating the medical discharges of people from self-diagnosis antigen tests after their positives registered online were included in the new cases data from last week.

In the last 7 days, 9,999 people have tested positive for Covid in the archipelago, which has caused an increase in the incidence rates, which now stand at 459 over 7 days and 737 over 14 days, but hospital pressure has stayed about the same with 294 Covid patients in hospital wards and 43 in ICU.

Of the active cases, Gran Canaria continues to be the most infected island with 6,666 people still positive, and remains in Level 4 restrictions, which although they have been relaxed are the strictest in the islands, and Tenerife has 5,898 and dropped to Level 3 on Friday.

Fuerteventura have seen a ‘blip’ with a rebound in cases but now have 716 actives on the island, and Lanzarote continue to have the best data (and are the only island at Level 2) with 531 actives.

In the three smaller islands, La Palma still has a high incidence of the virus with 383 active cases among their low population, and La Gomera has 87 with just 26 active cases in El Hierro.

Data for Sunday 27th February 2022:
(updates are against yesterday's figures)

New cases: 767

Gran Canaria: 414

Tenerife: 256

La Palma: 39

Lanzarote: 24

Fuerteventura: 17

La Gomera: 11

El Hierro: 6

Current Incidence rate (IA7): 459.52

(Cases last 7 days: 9,999)

Gran Canaria: 542.01