Tenerife is playing all the ballots to raise at least level 3 of health alert this Thursday after the Governing Council, a decision that, if taken, would be explained by the explosion of daily infections registered this Wednesday: 792 cases reported in 24 hours, and for the mega outbreaks observed this week.
The Canary Islands analyzes the explosion of COVID cases in the islands and points to “greater mobility and socialization”
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The rapid escalation of COVID-19 cases on the island caused the seven-day cumulative incidence (AI) to grow in the previous day by 64.51 points, to 248.01 per 100,000 inhabitants. This epidemiological indicator is already one step away from extreme risk (250 infections). The 14-day AI also rose by more than 60 points, to 352.25 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, so this indicator is painted red (high risk).
The tightening of the restrictions would be seen, in this case, as a preventive measure on the eve of Christmas, since the percentages of patients in hospital ward (161) and ICU (22) are currently at medium risk, with a 6 , 27% and 14.37% occupancy, respectively. However, it is to be expected that these figures will rise in the coming weeks, since the income gradually occurs between one and two weeks after being infected.
Of particular concern is the increase in positives among those over 65 years of age, those who suffer the worst consequences of the coronavirus and who already have incidences within 7 days of 104.25 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, at high risk, a figure that was not seen in the fifth wave, registered in July, and which brought the island to health alert level 4.
Tenerife is also the one with the most active cases: 4,041 (670 more than the previous day). Likewise, on the fateful day, two more people lost their lives to COVID-19: one from Adeje and another from La Laguna, so the number of deaths since the start of the pandemic rises to 603.
The number of cases related to mega-outbreaks on the island is also worrying. On the one hand, the one registered in a concert in a discotheque in Adeje and to which up to fifty infections are already related; and another among university students and that has motivated the University of La Laguna to expand its random screening program to those theoretical class groups in which at least two or more positive cases are verified, through accredited medical certification, given the increasing incidence of COVID-19 infections among students.
