SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Governing Council of the Canary Islands has agreed this Thursday that the island of Gran Canaria passes to level 1 of health alert and that of Fuerteventura to level 2 due to the improvement of epidemiological indicators.
This was indicated at a press conference by the Deputy Minister of the Presidency, Antonio Olivera, who pointed out that the epidemic improves “substantially” in the Canary Islands, thanks also to the solid vaccination campaign, with more than 1.6 million people with double the pattern, more than 82% of the target population.
Therefore, there are now six islands at level 1, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Graciosa, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, and two at level 2, Tenerife and Fuerteventura.
With respect to Fuerteventura, the Public Health report states that in the evaluation of September 23, the island presented an incipient improvement in transmission indicators with a downward trend that has been maintained in the last 11 days.
Thus, the 7-day and 14-day AI rates have been decreasing, with an average percentage decrease of the first compared to the second of 20%, remaining at medium risk levels in the last 7 days.
The occupation of beds on the hospital ward in the last two weeks has been varying from low to very low risk, keeping between 0 and 4 occupied conventional beds and between 0 and 1 occupied ICU beds (very low risk level).
Therefore, a decrease to alert level 2 is proposed, closely observing the evolution of the indicators in case there were any changes that would lead to a potential rise in level.
For its part, Gran Canaria presented level 1 indicators according to the CISNS criteria in the evaluation of September 23, but the two weeks required to verify the stabilization of an evolution towards the reduction of the risk of transmission and the impact had not elapsed. in hospital care.
In these two weeks, rates have been decreasing, with an average percentage decrease of the 7-day rate compared to the 14-day rate of 30%.
The occupation of beds on the hospital floor has been changing in the context of low risk and the occupation in ICUs shows a downward trend in this period. For all these reasons, the reduction to alert level 1 is proposed.
TENERIFE IMPROVES BUT CONCERNS TRACEABILITY
In the case of Tenerife, Olivera has said that it follows a “very positive evolution” although there is a parameter that “worries a little”, that of the cupability of cases because “it is very low and is at high risk”, below 50 % of the cases.
However, he specified that “everything is improving” and “the logical thing” is that Tenerife also ends up at level 1 but “public health opinion was to wait a little longer to ensure that the situation improves.”
