The number of infected decreases in 16 fewer people compared to the previous week
If we divide it by municipalities, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 122 people have been discharged during this last week, while in Santa Cruz de Tenerife 128 patients left the hospitals. The figure clearly drops, however, in La Laguna, where only 32 patients were discharged. And in Arrecife it occurs more clearly with 50 people who returned to their homes. In the last day there have been 55 new cases of Covid-19 coronavirus. The total accumulated cases in the Canary Islands is 96,060 with 767 active, of which 22 are admitted to the ICU and 73 remain hospitalized. In the last hours there have been no deaths due to Covid-19. This is the second consecutive day in which there are no deaths, of which, at the moment, a total of 998 are counted throughout the Archipelago.
If we divide it by municipality, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria continues to be the city in which the highest number of deaths has been registered, with 316 deaths. It is followed by Santa Cruz de Tenerife with 277, La Laguna with 232 and, finally, Arrecife with 49.
Almost half of those admitted who have returned home are from Tenerife and Gran Canaria
The Accumulated Incidence at seven days in the Canary Islands stands at 15.58 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 33.32 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
By islands, Tenerife had 22 cases in the last day with a total of 45,914 accumulated cases and 384 epidemiologically active cases; Gran Canaria has 36,653 accumulated cases, 23 more than the previous day and 274 active. Lanzarote adds eight new cases with 6,983 accumulated and 62 epidemiologically active; Fuerteventura has 4,526 accumulated cases with two more cases than the previous day and 42 active. La Palma does not add new cases and has 1,111 accumulated and three active cases; El Hierro does not register new positives, so its accumulated are 467 and it does not have active cases. For its part, La Gomera does not add cases, so its accumulated are 404 and it does not have any active cases.
To date, a total of 2,199,161 diagnostic tests have been carried out in the Islands, of which 3,377 correspond to yesterday.
The tests diagnosed in all the Islands are almost two million two hundred thousand
These data, analyzed globally and compared with those of a week ago, show a positive evolution on all fronts. Precisely, last Sunday a total of 71 new cases of coronavirus were registered, when the total number of accumulated cases in the Canary Islands stood at 95,729 with 903 active, of which 26 were admitted to the ICU and 99 remained hospitalized.
During that day there had not been any deaths either, so the total number of fatalities due to covid rose to 995. These figures have been oscillating differently during the last seven days, but with a downward trend.
Three million children
It wasn’t expected before 2022, but things have been going so fast that 3.2 million children ages 5 to 11 could be starting to get vaccinated against COVID this fall. For now, Andalusia has already set a date for the start of the pediatric vaccination campaign against covid: after initially calculating the end of October, it has postponed its estimate to the beginning of November, when it trusts that the EMA will respond to the authorization given this Friday. has asked Pfizer to use their drug in children ages 5 to 11. The results of the trials of the Pfizer vaccine in children under 12 years of age could not be more encouraging: the adverse effects seen in children are the same as in adults – pain at the injection site, malaise, fever. ..-, or “even milder and less frequent” | AGS
