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At 10pm on January 31st 2020, the Ministry of Health announced that the first case of coronavirus had been detected in Spain, a German doctor on holiday in La Gomera who had been in contact with a Chinese colleague before travelling here, whose parents had visited him from Wuhan. Little did we know what lay ahead, especially after Salvador Illa, the Minister of Health at the time, told us there was nothing to worry about as Spain “will only have a few cases”.
Since we wrote that first article about coronavirus 731 days ago, almost 9.8 million people in Spain have had the virus and 93,000 have died, 375 million people worldwide have had it and 5.7 million have lost their lives. Who knew what the next two years held, physically, emotionally, psychologically, and financially.
As we write about it today, 625 cases have been reported in the Canary Islands as a downward trend is continuing to be seen, and the light at the end of the tunnel is the brightest it has been since the pandemic started.
There have only been five deaths reported today, but January still finishes with the highest number of deaths and the greatest hospital pressure than at any point since that first case, which is what is preventing restrictions from being lifted at this stage.
On Thursday the Governing Council will meet as usual to review the epidemiological report from the Public Health committee, and they will be under pressure to start reviewing or relaxing some measures to fall in line with other countries as the spread of Omicron starts to ease and vaccinations continue at a rapid pace.
It’s going to be an interesting few weeks and the word ‘normality’ doesn’t seem far away, so watch this space as we’ll continue to report it as long as it takes.
Data for Monday 31st January 2022:
(updates are against yesterday’s figures)
New cases: 625
Gran Canaria: 327
Tenerife: 230
Lanzarote: 38
Fuerteventura: 15
El Hierro: 8
La Palma: 4
La Gomera: 3
Current Incidence rate (IA7): 476.76
(Cases last 7 days: 10,374)
El Hierro: 1,668.61
La Palma: 1,018.48
Gran Canaria: 546.80
Fuerteventura: 499.45
La Gomera: 378.26
Tenerife: 371.42
Lanzarote: 340.80
Current Incidence rate (IA14): 1,422.18
(Cases last 14 days: 30,860)
El Hierro: 4,153.58
La Palma: 2,425.17
Gran Canaria: 1,600.19
Fuerteventura: 1,444.06
Lanzarote: 1,203.37
Tenerife: 1,180.27
La Gomera: 945.66
General:
Covid patients in hospital: 627 (+17)
Covid patients in ICU: 93 (-)
Home isolation: 101,261
R number: 0.74 (needs to be below 1)
PCR test positivity rate: 22.63% (should be below 4.5%)
Vaccination: (No update today)
Total administered: 4,120,962
Fully vaccinated: 1,709,458 people (81.49%)
One dose: 1,817,992 people (86.67%)
Children aged 5-11: 65,314 (47.71%)
Booster doses: 726,792
Deaths last 24 hours: 5
Gran Canaria: 3 (495)
Tenerife: 1 (797)
Fuerteventura: 1 (27)
Total deaths: 1,418
Medical Discharges in last 24 hours: 770
Lanzarote: 263
La Palma: 225
Gran Canaria: 150
Tenerife:100
El Hierro: 29
La Gomera: 3
Fuerteventura: 0
Total Active cases per island:
Total: 101,981
Tenerife: 47,403 (+129)
Gran Canaria: 42,970 (+129)
Fuerteventura: 6,306 (+14)
Lanzarote: 4,078 (-225)
La Palma: 943 (-221)
El Hierro: 154 (-21)
La Gomera: 127 (-)
Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
31,144 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
20,988 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
8,919 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
3,495 in Telde (Gran Canaria)
3,081 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
2,713 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
2,103 in Arona (Tenerife)
1,972 in Adeje (Tenerife)
1,766 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
1,592 in Santa Lucia de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
1,497 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
1,345 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
1,032 in La Oliva (Fuerteventura)
686 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
466 in Mogán (Gran Canaria)
446 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
137 in Santiago del Teide (Tenerife)
(Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents the most infected and tourist areas)
