Coronavirus infections in the Canary Islands continue to drop to 147 with two deaths over the weekend

Of the total cases, 13,583 are active (-38), of which 79 are admitted to Intensive Care Units (+1), 369 remain hospitalized (+3) and 13,135 are at home (-42). In addition, 184 people have received medical discharge in the last hours, in such a way that 77,143 canaries have overcome the disease so far in the pandemic. As for the Accumulated Incidence (AI) at seven days in the Canary Islands, it drops to 63.74 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and the AI ​​at 14 days falls to 154.97 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Meanwhile, a total of 1,997,094 PCR tests have been carried out in the Canary Islands-3,376 in the last day-, of which 119,367 were positive, representing 5.98%.

By Islands, Tenerife adds 74 positives, accumulating 44,081 cases, of which 8,177 are epidemiologically active, 526 have died (+1) and 35,378 have overcome the disease. Gran Canaria has 35,037 accumulated (+53), of which 4,961 are active, 318 have died and 29,758 received medical discharge. For its part, Lanzarote adds 13 positives, with 6,563 accumulated, of which 150 are active, while it has registered 49 deaths and 6,364 overcame the disease. Fuerteventura has 4,058 accumulated cases (+4), of which 251 are active, 16 died and 3,791 received medical discharge.

La Palma adds one case in the last day, so it has 1,076 accumulated, of which 28 are active, 14 have died and 1,034 have already received medical discharge. Finally, El Hierro has a cumulative of 446, two new infections, of which nine are active, four have died and 433 people have overcome the covid disease; while La Gomera has an accumulated of 392 cases (without variation), of which seven are active, one has died and 384 have received medical discharge.

Vaccination

76.55% of the target population of the Canary Islands, that is, those over 12 years of age, have received the complete vaccination schedule against covid-19, according to the Ministry of Health said yesterday.

The Nursing teams of the Canary Islands Health Service have administered 2,959,219 doses of vaccines, of the 3,373,010 received, which represents 87.73%, Health has specified in a statement.

In the Archipelago, 82.59% of the target population is vaccinated against covid-19, since there are 1,619,357 people who have received at least one dose of the vaccine. This means that 86.55% of those over 16 years of age (which was the so-called target population when the serum inoculation campaign began) have at least one dose.

In addition, until the day before yesterday, 1,500,996 people had been immunized who have already received the complete vaccination schedule, which represents 76.55% of the target population of the Archipelago. If the initial target population is taken as a reference (those over 16 years of age, as already mentioned) in the Canary Islands, 80.22% are already immunized.

Groups from 1 to 7 (which include residents and nursing home health and social health personnel; health personnel; large dependents and main caregivers; vulnerable people; groups with essential functions such as teachers and police officers and people with very high risk conditions) are found vaccinated with two doses between 99.5 and 100% of cases.

In the rest of the groups by age, the situation is as follows: Group 8 includes people between 60 and 65 years of age, where 82.48% have at least one dose and 60.99% already have the full regimen. Group 9 includes people between 50 and 59 years of age, where 95.25% have at least one dose and 95.66% have the complete regimen.

Group 10 represents people between 40 and 49 years old. 59.12% have at least one dose and 75.70% the complete regimen (they include those immunized with Janssen, which is a single-dose vaccine, while the rest are all two-dose). Group 11 is people between 30 and 39 years old. 62.98% have at least one dose and 55.24% have the complete regimen.

Group 12 includes people between 20 and 29 years old. 57.72% have an inoculated dose and 48.88% the complete regimen. Finally, the youngest, group 13, of people between 12 and 19 years of age, encompasses a sector where 69.36% have already received a dose of serum and 46.64% add the complete regimen.