Covid update: 107 new cases, 2 deaths, one is a 6 year old boy

The Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands has reported of 107 new cases of coronavirus today after a slight readjustment in Fuerteventura. There are 2,835 active cases in the islands, with 71 Covid patients in ICU, 257 in hospital wards, and 2,505 in home isolation. In the last 24 hours the death of two more people has been reported, a 6-year-old boy in Tenerife and a 56-year-old man in Gran Canaria, both with previous serious pathologies. Previous to this, the youngest person to die in the Canary Islands with Covid-19 was a 21 year old also in Tenerife.

By islands, Tenerife today adds 64 cases with a total of 1,888 active cases; Gran Canaria adds 33 cases and has 769 active; Lanzarote adds 11 new cases with 143 epidemiologically active; La Palma registers two new cases; and Fuerteventura has 3 removed from its total, so has -3 today. There were no new cases reported in La Gomera or El Hierro.

Lanzarote sports outbreak: With regard to the Covid outbreak in the sports field reported in Lanzarote, the team of trackers has detected new cases associated with it, and today there are a total of 48 people affected. Of the total of positive cases, 27 are directly related to the sports activity itself, while the remaining 21 correspond to family members being infected.

The Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands has also announced today that they have extended the necessity of travellers to present a negative Covid test when coming from anywhere in the rest of Spain to the archipelago, by air or sea, until Saturday July 31^st.

This new extension is effective from today, with the publication of the Order of the Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo, in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC), and constitutes a necessary measure to continue with the control and containment of imported cases of coronavirus in travellers from other parts of Spain, while the rate of vaccination against Covid-19 is accelerating.