Covid update: Canaries now have the second lowest incidence rates in all of Spain


Covid update: Canaries now have the second lowest incidence rates in all of Spain

The Ministry of Health has confirmed that the downward trend of the Covid pandemic is continuing in the Canary Islands with 340 new cases of coronavirus detected, only 6.49% of the PCR tests carried out in the last 24 hours. The total number of accumulated cases is now 89,433 which after 632 discharges, leaves 14,940 active cases, of which 98 are admitted to ICU and 406 remain hospitalized.

In the last 24 hours there have been four more Covid related deaths: two men aged 47 and 68, and a woman aged 70 in Tenerife, and a woman aged 75 in Gran Canaria. All of them suffered from previous pathologies and were admitted to hospital.

By islands, Gran Canaria has added the most new cases today with 154; Tenerife has 123, Fuerteventura 32, Lanzarote 22, La Palma 7, El Hierro 2, and none in La Gomera.

The incidence rates for the islands have dropped again, with the IA7 now 105.93 and the IA14 at 272.25, which means that the Canary Islands now have the second lowest incidence rates in all of Spain (behind Asturias), whereas the Balearics have the second highest with an IA14 of 486.37.

The Ministry of Health announced today that all the islands are staying in the alert levels for Covid that they are already in, for at least another week, which means they are as follows:

Covid update: Canaries now have the second lowest incidence rates in all of Spain

Data for Thursday 19th August 2021:

New cases: 340

Gran Canaria: 154

Tenerife: 123

Fuerteventura: 32

Lanzarote: 22

La Palma: 7

El Hierro: 2

La Gomera: 0

 

Current Incidence rate (IA7): 105.93           

(Cases last 7 days: 2,307)

Fuerteventura: 119.43

Tenerife: 113.18

Gran Canaria: 112.56

Lanzarote: 69.96

El Hierro: 44.86

La Palma: 32.35

La Gomera: 27.68

 

Current Incidence rate (IA14): 272.25

(Cases last 14 days: 5,928)

Tenerife: 299.70

Gran Canaria: 295.49

Fuerteventura: 258.08

Lanzarote: 147.61

El Hierro: 80.74

La Palma: 63.50

La Gomera: 50.74

 

General:

Covid patients in hospital: 406 (-13)

Covid patients in ICU: 98 (-8)

Home isolation: 14,433

R number: 0.78 (needs to be below 1)

PCR test positivity rate: 6.49% (should be below 4.5%)

 

Deaths last 24 hours: 4

Tenerife: 7 (506)

Total deaths: 896

 

Vaccination:

Total administered: 2,821,340

Fully vaccinated: 1,381,558 people (70.50%)

One dose: 1,592,883 people (81.24%)

Target: 1,960,774 (population over 12 years old)

 

Medical Discharges in last 24 hours: 632

Tenerife: 363

Gran Canaria: 232

Lanzarote: 20

Fuerteventura: 13

La Palma: 5

La Gomera: 0

El Hierro: 0

 

Total Active cases per island:

Total: 14,937

Tenerife: 8,696 (-243)

Gran Canaria: 5,716 (-79)

Fuerteventura: 271 (+19)

Lanzarote: 196 (+2)

La Palma: 41 (+2)

La Gomera: 10 (+1)

El Hierro: 7 (+2)

 

Municipalities with most active cases in each island:

4,870 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) 

3,819 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)

1,578 in La Laguna (Tenerife)

869 in Arona (Tenerife)

695 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)

549 in Adeje (Tenerife)

235 in Santa Lucia de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)

218 in Telde (Gran Canaria)

166 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)

146 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)

146 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)

111 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)

101 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)

93 in La Oliva (Fuerteventura)

74 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)

45 in Mogán (Gran Canaria)

44 in Santiago del Teide (Tenerife)

 

(Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents the most infected and tourist areas)

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