Covid update: Six deaths and 222 new cases today in the Canary Islands
The Ministry of Health have notified of six Covid related deaths and 222 new cases of coronavirus in the Canary Islands today. Four people have died in Tenerife and two in Gran Canaria. The deceased in Tenerife are two men aged 65 and 95 years old, and two women, 69 and 84 years old, while the deaths in Gran Canaria are a 94-year-old woman and a 76-year-old man.
Except for the 76 and 95-year-old men, the rest of the deceased were linked to family outbreaks, although all of them had previous pathologies and were already admitted to hospital.
The total number of accumulated cases in the Canary Islands is now 90,644 with 14,396active, of which 89 are admitted to ICU and 391 are in Covid wards, with 13,916 in home isolation.
Of the new cases today, 98 are in Tenerife, 86 are in Gran Canaria, 22 in Fuerteventura, 10 in Lanzarote, 3 are in La Gomera, 2 are in La Palma and one is in La Gomera. As you can see below, some individual incidence rates have gone up, but they continued to decrease for the islands with the IA7 at 84.19 and the IA14 at 209.75. Tenerife has dropped considerably and both Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria are higher now over 7 and 14 days.
Data for Tuesday 24th August 2021:
New cases: 222
Tenerife: 98
Gran Canaria: 86
Fuerteventura: 22
Lanzarote: 10
La Gomera: 3
La Palma: 2
El Hierro: 1
Current Incidence rate (IA7): 84.19
(Cases last 7 days: 1,833)
Fuerteventura: 102.73
Gran Canaria: 89.54
Tenerife: 87.66
El Hierro: 62.80
Lanzarote: 60.97
La Palma: 26.36
La Gomera: 18.45
Current Incidence rate (IA14): 209.75
(Cases last 14 days: 4,567)
Fuerteventura: 236.36
Gran Canaria: 223.96
Tenerife: 223.88
Lanzarote: 137.35
El Hierro: 80.74
La Palma: 59.91
La Gomera: 50.74
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General:
Covid patients in hospital: 391 (-9)
Covid patients in ICU: 89 (-7)
Home isolation: 13,916
R number: 0.77 (needs to be below 1)
PCR test positivity rate: 7.60% (should be below 4.5%)
Deaths last 24 hours: 6
Tenerife: 4 (520)
Gran Canaria: 2 (313)
Total deaths: 916
Vaccination:
Total administered: 2,883,875
Fully vaccinated: 1,431,532 people (73.01%)
One dose: 1,605,698 people (81.89%)
Target: 1,960,774 (population over 12 years old)
Medical Discharges in last 24 hours: 465
Gran Canaria: 168
Tenerife: 251
Fuerteventura: 22
Lanzarote: 17
La Palma: 7
La Gomera: 0
El Hierro: 0
Total Active cases per island:
Total: 14,396
Tenerife: 8,505 (-157)
Gran Canaria: 5,414 (-84)
Fuerteventura: 239 (-)
Lanzarote: 187 (-7)
La Palma: 32 (-5)
El Hierro: 10 (+1)
La Gomera: 9 (+3)
Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
4,650 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
3,770 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
1,537 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
845 in Arona (Tenerife)
663 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
545 in Adeje (Tenerife)
209 in Santa Lucia de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
207 in Telde (Gran Canaria)
162 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
143 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
137 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
102 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
92 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
68 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
67 in La Oliva (Fuerteventura)
40 in Santiago del Teide (Tenerife)
21 in Mogán (Gran Canaria)
(Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents the most infected and tourist areas)
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