SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Aug 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands have registered 800 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, so the total accumulated cases in the Islands now rises to 82,565 with 14,893 active, of which 91 are admitted to the ICU and 465 remain hospitalized.
In the last hours, two people have died in Gran Canaria. The total number of deaths in the Islands since the beginning of the pandemic amounts to 838, of which 473 have been in Tenerife; 287 in Gran Canaria; 49 in Lanzarote; 14 in Fuerteventura; 10 on La Palma; 4 in El Hierro, and 1 in La Gomera.
The Accumulated Incidence (AI) at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 240.35 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and the AI at 14 days in 498.59 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. To date, a total of 1,851,331 PCR tests have been carried out on the islands, of which 8,211 correspond to the last 24 hours.
By islands, Tenerife adds 375 new infections with a total of 39,793 accumulated cases and 8,700 epidemiologically active; Gran Canaria has 31,209 accumulated cases, 362 more than the previous day, and 5,301 active; Lanzarote has ten positives, with 6,196 accumulated and 172 active, and Fuerteventura has 3,573 accumulated cases, with 35 more than the previous day, and 547 active.
La Palma adds twelve new cases, so it has 991 accumulated and 116 active; El Hierro, with three new cases, has 426 accumulated and 14 active cases, while La Gomera adds three new infections, has 373 accumulated and 41 active.