Covid update: Positive news with a drop in new and active cases

The Ministry of Health has confirmed 148 new cases of coronavirus in the Canary Islands today, which is one of the lowest counts on a weekday for some time and the lowest overall for 17 days. Of the new cases 96 are in Tenerife, 43 are in Gran Canaria, 6 in Lanzarote, 2 in La Palma, and Fuerteventura registered just one. There has unfortunately been one Covid related death reported of a 61-year-old man in Tenerife, whose contagion was associated with a family outbreak.

Hopefully these figures are the sign of things to come as Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura are significantly lower, and Tenerife has less than 100 new cases. When the 405 medical discharges are taken into account, the stats look even better as active cases have dropped to 4,193 of which 324 are in hospital and a further 84 in ICU, but the number of people in home isolation has dropped below 4,000 to 3,785.

The ‘usual’ trend of the data over previous weeks, particularly since the ‘Carnival period’ of restrictions, is that active cases decrease slowly and get close to 4,000 during the week then increase rapidly over the weekend as the number of people discharged is low, taking us back to square one. Hopefully this is a sign that the Easter spike of new infections is over and that finally we will see decrease in new cases, active cases, and incidence rates, alongside an increase in medical discharges and vaccinations.