Covid update: 334 new infections as cases and hospitalisations continue to increase
The latest data, which will be used for the review of the epidemiological data tomorrow for the alert levels in the islands, reports 334 new cases of coronavirus in the Canary Islands in the last 24 hours, with 136 medical discharges leaving 2,708 active cases of which 190 are in hospital (an increase of 15 from yesterday) and 27 are in ICU.
They have also confirmed the death of the 53rd person in Lanzarote, a 65-year-old man, who is the 1,034th person to die from coronavirus in the Canary Islands since the pandemic began.
The bad news is that as the cases as have gone up, so have the number of outbreaks, which have rebounded to 106 this week with 535 people infected. Of these, 56 new outbreaks are in Tenerife, 34 are in Gran Canaria, 7 are in Fuerteventura, 5 are in Lanzarote, 2 are in La Palma, and 2 are in La Gomera.
The highest number of new outbreaks are from social situations, either at home, at a party, or in a bar with 30, 28 are among family gatherings, 26 are in the workplace, 17 are in educational centres, collectives, 1 is in a sport environment, and 1 is in a health centre.
Data for Wednesday 24th November 2021:
(updates are against yesterday’s figures)
New cases: 334
Gran Canaria: 140
Tenerife: 127
Fuerteventura: 40
Lanzarote: 17
La Palma: 9
La Gomera: 1
El Hierro: 0
Current Incidence rate (IA7): 81.44
(Cases last 7 days: 1,772)
Fuerteventura: 131.13
Gran Canaria: 83.81
Tenerife: 80.44
Lanzarote: 71.24
La Gomera: 41.52
La Palma: 37.14
El Hierro: 0.00
Current Incidence rate (IA14): 143.52
(Cases last 14 days: 3,122)
Fuerteventura: 226.34
Tenerife: 146.99
Lanzarote: 145.69
Gran Canaria: 139.45
La Gomera: 101.49
La Palma: 52.72
El Hierro: 8.97
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General:
Covid patients in hospital: 190 (+15)
Covid patients in ICU: 27 (-1)
Home isolation: 2,491
R number: 1.17 (needs to be below 1)
PCR test positivity rate: 4.50% (should be below 4.5%)
Deaths last 24 hours: 1
Lanzarote: 1 (53)
Total deaths: 1,034
Vaccination: (No update today)
Total administered: 3,240,584
Fully vaccinated: 1,679,202 people (85.64%)
One dose: 1,691,355 people (86.26%)
Target: 1,960,774 (population over 12 years old)
Medical Discharges in last 24 hours: 136
Tenerife: 91
Gran Canaria: 26
Fuerteventura: 11
La Palma: 5
Lanzarote: 3
La Gomera: 0
El Hierro: 0
Total Active cases per island:
Total: 2,708
Tenerife: 1,168 (+36)
Gran Canaria: 1,109 (+14)
Fuerteventura: 231 (+29)
Lanzarote: 151 (+13)
La Palma: 35 (+4)
La Gomera: 13 (+1)
El Hierro: 1 (-)
Municipalities with most active cases in each island:
916 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
657 in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
168 in La Laguna (Tenerife)
130 in Arrecife (Lanzarote)
117 in Arona (Tenerife)
103 in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
88 in La Oliva (Fuerteventura)
84 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
80 in Adeje (Tenerife)
60 in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife)
29 in Santa Lucia de Tirajana (Gran Canaria)
26 in Telde (Gran Canaria)
18 in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife)
16 in Mogán (Gran Canaria)
9 in San Miguel de Abona (Tenerife)
8 in Guia de Isora (Tenerife)
4 in Santiago del Teide (Tenerife)
(Please note this is not all municipalities, it represents the most infected and tourist areas)
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