The Canary Islands have started the week with a Covid related death in El Hierro, an 87 year old man, only the fourth on the island, which increases the number of fatalities to 562 since the beginning of the pandemic. In addition, the islands add 189 new cases that raise the accumulated total to 38,629.
The archipelago has 6,931 active cases as of today, of which 86 are in Intensive Care (three more than yesterday), 297 are admitted to hospital wards, and 6,548 are under treatment at their homes. Gran Canaria now has 57% of the active cases on the islands.
Since the start of the pandemic 562 people have lost their lives, and Tenerife continues to lead this statistic with 336 deaths, followed by Gran Canaria with 177, Lanzarote with 31, Fuerteventura with eight, La Palma with six and El Hierro with four. The capital of Gran Canaria is the municipality with the most deaths from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic with 167 deaths, 30% of the total.
The Accumulated Incidence rate (AI7) at seven days stands at 61.48 per 100,000 inhabitants for the islands, and the AI at 14 days at 132.67, both have increased over the weekend.
Data for Monday 15th February 2021:
New cases:
Total: 189
Gran Canaria: 86 (45%)
Tenerife: 74 (39%)
Lanzarote: 18
Fuerteventura: 8
La Palma: 3
El Hierro: 0
La Gomera: 0
Current Incidence rate (IA7):
Canary Islands: 61.48
El Hierro: 373.82
Lanzarote: 154.97
Gran Canaria: 69.78
Fuerteventura: 47.05
Tenerife: 40.97
La Palma: 24.19
La Gomera: 9.30
Current Incidence rate (IA14):
Canary Islands: 132.68
El Hierro: 1,048.50
Lanzarote: 374.95
Gran Canaria: 159.30
Fuerteventura: 81.28
Tenerife: 73.76
La Palma: 49.59
La Gomera: 9.30
General:
Covid patients in hospital: 297 (+5)
Covid patients in ICU: 86 (+3)
Home isolation: 6,548
PCR positive rate: 6.59% (needs to be below 5)
R number: 0.83 (needs to be below 1)
Deaths last 24 hours: 1
El Hierro: 1 (4)
Total deaths: 562
Vaccination:
Total administered: 99,316
Two doses: 40,779
Medical Discharges in last 24 hours:
Total: 109
Gran Canaria: 47
Lanzarote: 44
La Palma: 10
Tenerife: 8
Fuerteventura: 0
El Hierro: 0
La Gomera: 0
Total Active cases per island:
Total: 6,931
Gran Canaria: 3,926 (+39)
Tenerife: 2,243 (+66)
Lanzarote: 505 (-26)
Fuerteventura: 132 (+8)
El Hierro: 97 (-1)
La Palma: 26 (-7)
La Gomera: 2 (-)
Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
3,571 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
1,315 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
479 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
428 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
104 in Adeje (Tenerife)
96 in Valverde (El Hierro)
93 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
80 in Arona (Tenerife)
79 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
74 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
20 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
18 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
7 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
2 in Alajero (La Gomera)
Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents most infected and tourist areas.
