SCS: Tenerife is heading to alert Level 4 due to Covid infections

The director of the Canarian Health Service (SCS), Conrado Domínguez, has admitted today (Thursday), that everything indicates to Tenerife rising to Level 4 after today's Governing Council meeting that will analyze the island's data from the last few days, in which the incidence of the virus and new cases have rocketed.

“We are going to analyze the data from the last 24 hours, but the continuous increase in data has been consolidated in the last few days, so everything indicates that there will be changes in the Covid alert levels. Tenerife has the highest incidence and is growing in infections more rapidly than other islands because it has a higher incidence of Omicron. We have to wait for the reports, but it is quite close to going up to level 4", admitted Domínguez in an interview with Cope Canarias.

Yesterday the Canary Islands once again had a record number of infections with 2,669 cases, Tenerife monopolized 70% of the new cases with 1,736 infections as opposed to 662 in Gran Canaria. The greater incidence of the Omicron variant in Tenerife, in addition to the proximity of the festivities, will cause the island to go up a level of the Covid traffic light to brown.

Conrado admitted that the worst is yet to come and that the Canary Islands may exceed 3,000 daily infections in the next few hours, so he asks the population for responsibility and to respect the measures to stop the spread of coronavirus.

“Cases are rising faster due to the incidence of the omicron variant, which is much more contagious. We have to wait for the data to be downloaded and for the numbers of the private centres, but we are approaching the figure of 3,000 cases. That is why it is very important that the population be vaccinated, so that the virus does not have such an incidence. Both those who have to take the third dose, and young people, and minors," said Conrado, who invited caution in the upcoming parties.