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Covid update: 189 new cases, Gran Canaria has most for 3rd day running

2021/02/23 16:23:55 Written by Canarian Weekly National

The Ministry of Health has announced the latest figures for the detection of Covid cases in the Canary Islands, and for the third day running Gran Canaria has the most cases in the archipelago since being lowered to level 2 restrictions.

In the last 24 hours 189 new cases of coronavirus have been detected from 2,700 PCR tests carried out, of which Gran Canaria has 90, which means that they’ve had 258 new cases since Sunday. Tenerife have added 74, Lanzarote 12, and Fuerteventura 11.

Active cases in the islands have reduced slightly thanks to 272 medical discharges, leaving 6,063 active cases of which 281 are in hospital wards and 86 are in ICU. They have also reported of two more Covid related deaths, a 64-year-old man in Gran Canaria and an 84-year-old woman in Tenerife, who caught the virus from a younger member of her family.

The Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo, advised earlier today, that a total of 159 cases of the British variant have been detected in the Canary Islands among 821 positive samples sequenced between January 18th and February 22nd by the Microbiology department of the La Candelaria de Tenerife hospital.

In addition, in this Sars-Cov-2 genomic sequencing project, cases of the P.1 (Brazilian) and P.2 (Rio de Janeiro) strains have also been identified, Trujillo explained this morning in a parliamentary session. According to Trujillo, the British variant was detected in 19.6% of the samples analyzed, which were not obtained randomly, but suspected to be the variant due to the persons movements and contacts, but that the discovery is worrisome due to their ability to circumvent the immune system, their contagiousness and their lethality.

He went on to announce that the Ministry are working on a protocol to set up a state surveillance network for Sars-Cov-2 variants that establishes a joint methodology to carry out the samplings and their subsequent sequencing.

Data for Tuesday 23rd February 2021:
New cases:
Total: 189
Gran Canaria: 90 (48%)
Tenerife: 74 (39%)
Lanzarote: 12
Fuerteventura: 11
El Hierro: 2
La Palma: 0
La Gomera: 0

Current Incidence rate (IA7):
Canary Islands: 51.04
El Hierro: 136.76
Lanzarote: 67.63
Gran Canaria: 56.04
Fuerteventura: 49.62
Tenerife: 47.94
La Palma: 7.26
La Gomera: 0.00

Current Incidence rate (IA14):
Canary Islands: 109.97
El Hierro: 519.69
Lanzarote: 214.72
Gran Canaria: 122.29
Fuerteventura: 100.10
Tenerife: 87.05
La Palma: 30.24
La Gomera: 9.30

General:
Covid patients in hospital: 281 (-10)
Covid patients in ICU: 86 (+1)
Home isolation: 5,772
PCR positive rate: 5.52% (needs to be below 5)
R number: 0.84 (needs to be below 1)

Deaths last 24 hours: 2
Tenerife: 1 (338
Gran Canaria: 1 (183)
Total deaths: 578

Vaccination:
Total administered: 119,426
Two doses: 49,752

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Medical Discharges in last 24 hours:
Total: 272
Gran Canaria: 164
Tenerife: 68
Lanzarote: 35
El Hierro: 3
La Palma: 2
Fuerteventura: 0
La Gomera: 0

Total Active cases per island:
Total: 6,063
Gran Canaria: 3,341 (-75)
Tenerife: 2,249:(+5)
Lanzarote: 285 (-23)
Fuerteventura: 152 (+11)
El Hierro: 19 (-1)
La Palma: 15 (-2)
La Gomera: 2 (-)

Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
3,008 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
1,294 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
438 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
266 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
107 in Adeje (Tenerife)
87 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
86 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
78 in Arona (Tenerife)
76 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
22 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
20 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
19 in Valverde (El Hierro)
8 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)

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

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