Covid update: 280 new cases, Tenerife has 4 deaths in last 24 hours

The Ministry of Health have released todays coronavirus update which shows that 280 new cases have been detected in the Canary Islands in the last 24 hours, 111 of them in Gran Canaria, 77 in Tenerife, and 74 in Lanzarote, who have passed the 3,000 cases mark. They have also reported of five Covid related deaths, 4 in Tenerife and 1 in Gran Canaria.

As of today 47,485 doses of vaccine have been administered, which is 99.12% of all delivered to the islands, and so far 2,865 people have now had both jabs and are heading to maximum immunisation.

Tenerife continues its downward trend, but residents are reminded that although restrictions have been downgraded to Level 2, with the addition of groups of six people allowed to meet from Monday, the virus is still present and there are still 4,371 active cases on the island.

In the south of Tenerife there are still 650 active cases, and there are reports of a potential outbreak in Adeje, thought to be Callao Salvaje but not confirmed yet, after a British couple (residents) refused to self isolate after testing positive for the virus, until police intervention to get their contact list for the track and trace teams who will be contacting people in due course for testing.

As of today the Canary Health service have carried out 758,761 PCR tests since the beginning of the pandemic, with 38,831 testing positive, a rate of 5.12%.

Data for Saturday 23rd January 2021:
New cases:
Total: 280
Gran Canaria: 111 (40%)
Tenerife: 77 (27%)
Lanzarote: 74 (26%)
Fuerteventura: 15
El Hierro: 4
La Gomera: 0
La Palma: -1

Current Incidence rate (IA7):
Canary Islands: 90.14 (1,941 cases over last 7 days)
Lanzarote: 364.44 (555)
El Hierro: 209.70 (23)
Gran Canaria: 105.26 (896)
Fuerteventura: 94.96 (111)
Tenerife: 38.46 (353)
La Gomera: 4.65 (1)
La Palma: 2.42 (2)

Current Incidence rate (IA14):
Canary Islands: 187.89 (4,046 cases over last 14 days)
Lanzarote: 764.99 (1,165)
El Hierro: 300.88 (33)
Fuerteventura: 199.34 (233)
Gran Canaria: 205.70 (1,751)
Tenerife: 92.39 (848)
La Gomera: 27.90 (6)
La Palma: 12.10 (10)

General:
Covid patients in hospital: 323 (-4)
Covid patients in ICU: 55 (+2)
Home isolation: 8,036
PCR positive rate: 6.86% (needs to be below 5)
R number: 1.14 (needs to be below 1)

Deaths last 24 hours: 5
Tenerife: 4 (317)
Gran Canaria: 1 (152)
Total deaths: 495

Medical Discharges in last 24 hours:
Total: 116
Lanzarote: 63
Gran Canaria: 39
Tenerife: 14
Fuerteventura: 0
El Hierro: 0
La Gomera: 0
La Palma: 0

Total Active cases per island:
Total: 8,414
Tenerife: 4,371 (+59)
Gran Canaria: 2,783 (+71)
Lanzarote: 989 (+11)
Fuerteventura: 239 (+15)
El Hierro: 28 (+4)
La Palma: 3 (-1)
La Gomera: 1 (-)

Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
2,530 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
1,991 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
1,296 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
900 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
226 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
223 in Arona (Tenerife)
141 in Adeje (Tenerife)
104 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
75 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
61 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
56 in Los Realejos (Tenerife)
27 in Valverde (El Hierro)
24 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
22 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
1 in San Sebastian (La Gomera)

Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents most infected and tourist areas.