Covid update: Data supports Governments decision for alert Level changes

The third wave of the Covid pandemic continues its escalation in the islands and adds 368 new cases of coronavirus and four deaths today (Friday), according to data from the Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands updated at 2:00pm.

Gran Canaria once again registered the largest increase with 164 new cases and raises its accumulated total to 12,051. Lanzarote follows with 106 more and reaches 2,361 infections since the start of the pandemic, and Tenerife has 74 with a cumulative total of 14,668. The rest of the cases, 22, have been recorded in Fuerteventura, which has a total of 1,223 positives. There were no new cases in the other islands.

So far this week, the Archipelago has accumulated 1,341 positive cases, which have been concentrated mainly in Gran Canaria (39.97%) and Lanzarote (24.9%), who’s accumulated incidence rates (AI) have also increased notably in the first fifteen days of January. In the last seven days, the accumulated risk in the Canary Islands rises to 96.08 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, while the accumulated risk of the last 14 days is 163.60 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Given the evolution of these data, both islands face new restrictions to stop the spread of infections. The Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo, announced yesterday the rise of Lanzarote to level 3 and the forecast that Gran Canaria could also rise as of this weekend if the trend does not improve, while Fuerteventura entered level 2. This data seems to support the fact that Tenerife will drop to Level 2, and Gran Canaria rise to Level 3 after tomorrows Governing Council meeting.

As for the four deaths, two have taken place in Gran Canaria, which brings the total number of fatalities from the pandemic on the island to 146, and two in Tenerife, which has 295 fatalities. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 462 people have lost their lives on the islands.

Data for Friday 15th January 2021:
New cases:
Total: 368
Gran Canaria: 164 (45%)
Lanzarote: 106 (29%)
Tenerife: 76 (21%)
Fuerteventura: 22
La Palma: 0
El Hierro: 0
La Gomera: 0

Current Incidence rate (IA7):
Canary Islands: 96.08 (2,069 cases over last 7 days)
Lanzarote: 357.87 (545)
Fuerteventura: 114.64 (134)
Gran Canaria: 98.68 (840)
El Hierro: 91.17 (10)
Tenerife: 56.22 (516)
La Gomera: 37.20 (8)
La Palma: 19.35 (16)

Current Incidence rate (IA14):
Canary Islands: 163.60 (3,523 cases over last 14 days)
Lanzarote: 500.36 (762)
El Hierro: 237.05 (29)
Fuerteventura: 178.81 (209)
Gran Canaria: 159.53 (1,358)
Tenerife: 122.68 (1,126)
La Gomera: 60.46 (13)
La Palma: 35.08 (29)

General:
Covid patients in hospital: 300 (-6)
Covid patients in ICU: 55 (-4)
Home isolation: 7,470
PCR positive rate: 6.70% (needs to be below 5)
R number: 1.00 (needs to be below 1)
Vaccination: 27,637 doses administered

Deaths last 24 hours: 4
Tenerife: 2 (295)
Gran Canaria: 2 (146)
Total deaths: 462

Medical Discharges in last 24 hours:
Total: 282
Tenerife: 147
Gran Canaria: 58
Lanzarote: 29
Fuerteventura: 22
El Hierro: 10
La Gomera: 8
La Palma: 8

Total Active cases per island:
Total: 7,825
Tenerife: 4,800 (-73)
Gran Canaria: 2,106 (+104)
Lanzarote: 686 (+77)
Fuerteventura: 194 (-)
La Palma: 17 (-8)
El Hierro: 12 (-8)
La Gomera: 10 (-8)

Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
2,137 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
1,919 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
1,449 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
633 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
262 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
247 in Arona (Tenerife)
150 in Adeje (Tenerife)
93 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
91 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
70 in Los Realejos (Tenerife)
50 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
36 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
24 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
11 in Valverde (El Hierro)
10 in San Sebastian (La Gomera)
7 in Breña Alta (La Palma)

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