SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Aug 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands have registered 478 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, so that the total number of accumulated cases in the Islands is already 85,166 with 16,018 active, of which 95 are admitted to the ICU and 472 remain hospitalized, according to informed the Ministry of Health.
The data reported today represents a decrease of 148 positives compared to last Sunday, when 626 new infections were reported. In the last eight days there has been a steady decline in the number of cases.
In the last hours, five people have died: one in Tenerife and four in Gran Canaria. The death of Tenerife is that of an 86-year-old woman associated with a family outbreak; While the deaths in Gran Canaria are three women of 88, 86 and 83 years old, the latter linked to a family outbreak, and a 62-year-old man. All suffered from previous pathologies and remained admitted to the hospital.
The Accumulated Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 203.73 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 457.64 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Until today, 1,889,394 diagnostic tests have been carried out in the Islands, of which 5,524 correspond to yesterday.
By islands, Tenerife today adds 196 cases with a total of 41,073 accumulated cases and 9,307 epidemiologically active; Gran Canaria has 32,336 accumulated, 237 more, and 5,927 assets. For its part, Lanzarote adds 17 positives, with 6,261 accumulated and 163 active; Fuerteventura has 3,684 accumulated cases, with 23 more than the previous day, and 506 active.
La Palma adds two new cases, so it has 1,001 accumulated and 73 active; El Hierro adds a new case, so it has 430 accumulated and 12 active, while La Gomera, with two new cases, has 377 accumulated and 28 active.
