Covid update: Canary Islands register 210 new cases and four more deaths
The Ministry of Health has notified of 210 new cases of coronavirus in the Canary Islands today, with 91% of them in Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Tenerife has registered 102 new cases and has the most actives with 2,089 and Gran Canaria has 89 new cases with 2,073 of them active. In addition, four more people, two in Tenerife and two in Gran Canaria, have lost their lives due to the pandemic in the archipelago in the last 24 hours.
The two from Gran Canaria, aged 75 and 87, are both associated with individual family outbreaks, and the other two in Tenerife, are aged 64 and 69. The first three were admitted to hospital and the fourth was linked to a family outbreak. All had previous pathologies and experienced a worsening of their clinical condition.
These figures reflect exactly what the Government, public health, and every resident in the Canary Islands didn’t want to see, as this spike in cases represents a backward step in the data for islands, just 48 hours before the next Governing Council meeting to review alert Levels and Easter restrictions.
It’s already been said that there will be some strict regulations for a two week period from 26th March to April 9th, which will be almost the same as over Carnival period, but with extras. This data fully endorses the central Governments recommendation of a perimeter closure over Easter, which the Canaries don’t want, as the cases and incidence rates are increasing, and are actually higher now than before Carnival.
Tenerife and Gran Canaria continue to be the ‘problem’ islands. Both are very similar now in their evolution of the pandemic as far as total number of cases is concerned 17,676 v 17,413; the number of recoveries 15,241 v 15,132; the number of active cases 2,089 v 2,073; the number of patients in ICU with Covid 32 v 34; but Tenerife has more deaths 346 v 208.
The main problem is that the situation is not improving in either island at the moment, and unless it does, it is going to be a long, quiet summer. The hope is that with extra restrictions at Easter, an increase in vaccinations, and people taking responsibility and respecting health regulations more, then we will be able to bring the data down sufficiently to allow tourists back into the islands when they are allowed to travel.
Data for Tuesday 9th March 2021:
New cases:
Total: 210
Tenerife: 102 (48%)
Gran Canaria: 89 (42%)
Fuerteventura: 11
Lanzarote: 4
La Palma: 4
La Gomera: 0
El Hierro: 0
Current Incidence rate (IA7):
Canary Islands: 56.42
Gran Canaria: 66.26
Fuerteventura: 57.32
Tenerife: 56.33
El Hierro: 54.70
La Palma: 24.19
Lanzarote: 23.64
La Gomera: 23.25
Current Incidence rate (IA14):
Canary Islands: 111.59
Fuerteventura: 155.71
El Hierro: 118.53
Gran Canaria: 124.53
Tenerife: 106.77
Lanzarote: 74.86
La Palma: 54.43
La Gomera: 41.85
General:
Covid patients in hospital: 310 (+5)
Covid patients in ICU: 77 (-)
Home isolation: 4,077
PCR positive rate: 5.67% (needs to be below 5)
R number: 0.95 (needs to be below 1)
Deaths last 24 hours: 4
Tenerife: 2 (346)
Gran Canaria: 2 (208)
Total deaths: 617
Vaccination:
Total administered: 175,259
Two doses: 56,190
Medical Discharges in last 24 hours:
Total: 449
Gran Canaria: 222
Tenerife: 199
Lanzarote: 12
Fuerteventura: 7
El Hierro: 7
La Palma: 2
La Gomera: 0
Total Active cases per island:
Total: 4,464
Tenerife: 2,089 (-99)
Gran Canaria: 2,073 (-135)
Fuerteventura: 168 (+4)
Lanzarote: 88 (-8)
La Palma: 31 (+2)
El Hierro: 9 (-7)
La Gomera: 6 (-)
Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
1,870 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
1,107 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
454 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
122 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
110 in Adeje (Tenerife)
80 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
71 in Arona (Tenerife)
69 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
49 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
35 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
15 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
9 in Valverde (El Hierro)
6 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents most infected and tourist areas.