Covid update: one death and 151 new cases, the lowest new cases for a week

The Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands today confirmed 151 new cases of coronavirus taking the total number of accumulated cases in the Islands to 43,343 with 4,361 active, of which 74 are admitted to ICU and 311 remain hospitalized. In the last hours, the death of a 98-year-old woman in Gran Canaria has been reported, associated with a family outbreak and suffering from previous pathologies.

By islands, Tenerife today adds 69 new cases with a total of 18,221 accumulated and 2,255 active cases; Gran Canaria has 17,817 accumulated cases, 73 more than the previous day and 1,885 active. Lanzarote adds a new case with 4,520 accumulated and 81 epidemiologically active

Fuerteventura has 1,824 accumulated cases with seven more cases than the previous day and 295 active. La Palma adds one new case and stands at 442 accumulated and 29 active cases; El Hierro does not register any new cases, keeping its accumulated at 298 and its assets at seven. For its part, in La Gomera There are no new cases, so their accumulated are 221 and their assets are five.

The Accumulated Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 62.88 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 118.51 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and to date, a total of 911,966 PCR tests have been carried out in the Islands, of which 2,876 correspond to yesterday.

Data for Sunday 14th March 2021:
New cases:
Total: 151
Gran Canaria: 73 (48%)
Tenerife: 69 (46%)
Fuerteventura: 7
Lanzarote: 1
La Palma: 1
La Gomera: 0
El Hierro: 0

Current Incidence rate (IA7):
Canary Islands: 62.88
Fuerteventura: 73.58
Tenerife: 71.91
Gran Canaria: 64.14
El Hierro: 27.35
Lanzarote: 23.64
La Palma: 22.98
La Gomera: 18.60

Current Incidence rate (IA14):
Canary Islands: 118.51
Fuerteventura: 128.33
Tenerife: 128.13
Gran Canaria: 127.82
El Hierro: 72.94
Lanzarote: 53.85
La Palma: 48.38
La Gomera: 37.20

General:
Covid patients in hospital: 311 (+7)
Covid patients in ICU: 74 (+2)
Home isolation: 4,082
PCR positive rate: 4.87% (needs to be below 5)
R number: 0.98 (needs to be below 1)

Deaths last 24 hours: 1
Gran Canaria: 1 (212)
Total deaths: 625

Vaccination:
Total administered: 200,954
Two doses: 62,853

Medical Discharges in last 24 hours:
Total: 44
Gran Canaria: 25
Lanzarote: 7
La Palma: 6
Tenerife: 3
La Gomera: 2
El Hierro: 1
Fuerteventura: 0

Total Active cases per island:
Total: 4,467
Tenerife: 2,255 (+66)
Gran Canaria: 1,885 (+47)
Fuerteventura: 205 (+7)
Lanzarote: 81 (-6)
La Palma: 29 (-5)
El Hierro: 7 (-1)
La Gomera: 5 (-2)

Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
1,699 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
1,133 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
532 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
150 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
115 in Adeje (Tenerife)
83 in Arona (Tenerife)
74 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
74 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
42 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
37 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
17 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
9 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
7 in Valverde (El Hierro)

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