SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands have registered 79 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, so that the total accumulated cases in the islands now rises to 94,081 with 4,469 active, of which 46 are admitted to the ICU and 218 remain hospitalized, according to data from the Ministry of Health of the Canary Government.
In the last hours there have been two deaths, one in Tenerife and the other in Gran Canaria. The total number of deaths on the islands since the beginning of the pandemic amounts to 971, of which 556 have been in Tenerife; 327 in Gran Canaria; 50 in Lanzarote; 17 in Fuerteventura; 16 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 31.48 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and the AI at 14 days in 68.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. To date, a total of 2,080,976 PCR tests have been carried out on the islands, of which 4,689 correspond to the last 24 hours.
By islands, Tenerife adds 31 new infections with a total of 45,086 accumulated cases and 1,218 epidemiologically active; Gran Canaria has 35,996 accumulated cases, 27 more than the previous day, and 2,831 active; Lanzarote has 15 positive cases, with 6,738 accumulated and 88 active, and Fuerteventura has 4,314 accumulated cases, with four more than the previous day, and 321 active.
La Palma adds a new case, so it has 1,091 accumulated and 6 assets; El Hierro also adds a new contagion and rises to 453 accumulated and 2 active cases, while La Gomera, without new cases, continues with 402 accumulated and 3 active.
