The coronavirus outbreak registered in the nightclub in the urban area of Adaxis, in Tenerife, already has 273 afflicted. This was reported yesterday by the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, which also reported that in the last week the Archipelago It has found 144 outbreaks of the pathogen, affecting 689 people. Of the total, 50 have been produced in Gran Canaria; 47 in Tenerife; 18 in Fuerteventura; 18 in Lanzarote; seven on La Palma; two in La Gomera; and two in El Hierro.
Considering the area in which they have been declared, 55 are framed in the social context; 45 in the family; a score in the work environment; another twenty in the educational one; two in the toilet; one in the socio-sanitary; and another is of mixed origin.
Most of the new outbreaks gather between three and seven cases, although there are three that occurred in Gran Canaria that exceed this last number. Among these is one registered in the San José de Las Longueras socio-sanitary center, with a labor branch, which has 26 positives –20 users and six workers–; a social one with family branching, which combines 13 clinical pictures; and another of family origin, with 11 associated cases.
Among the social focuses also stands out a dozen produced in the field of nightlife in Tenerife, with 60 infected patients. Three of these outbreaks register ten, nine and another nine affected, respectively, and one of them has branches on another island. In addition, another seven linked to dinners held with friends have been counted.
As usual, family outbreaks have occurred between families residing in different homes. They all bring together between three and seven cases, except for four: two found in Tenerife, with eight and nine associated cases; one in Lanzarote, with eight; and another in Gran Canaria, with nine.
It must be said that labor outbreaks also have between three and seven associated cases, except for one declared in El Hierro, with social and family ramifications, with 10 positives; one in Fuerteventura with nine cases; and another in Lanzarote, with eight affected. These last two have also been extrapolated to the family sphere.
With regard to educational centers, Health reported that eight of them have been registered in Tenerife, another eight in Gran Canaria, three in Fuerteventura and one in El Hierro. All have family branches and the most numerous has occurred in Gran Canaria and has seven affected.
Finally, one of the health outbreaks has been reported at the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria University Hospital and the other at the Insular-Maternal-Infant University Hospital Complex. Both compute three associated cases – all are patients.
The truth is that the contagion curve continues to skyrocket in the Archipelago. In fact, the autonomous community yesterday registered a new record in the calculation of daily cases by adding 2,669. Also, in the last day, the region regretted three new deaths linked to Covid-19. The deceased are a 62-year-old man in Gran Canaria without previous pathologies, and another 66-year-old man in Tenerife with underlying diseases. The other death, also produced in Tenerife, is pending validation by the General Directorate of Public Health. According to sources consulted by this newspaper, the two sixties had not received the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
Taking into account the data disaggregated by islands, Tenerife added 1,736 cases –65% of the total–; Gran Canaria 662; Lanzarote 121; Fuerteventura 84; La Palma 36; El Hierro 12; Y. La Gomera 19.
In the Archipelago there are already 19,056 active cases –2,414 more than in the previous 24 hours–, which also translates into the highest figure in the entire pandemic. Most are in Tenerife, where 11,392 people suffer from the disease. Gran Canaria follows, with 5,332; Fuerteventura, with 1,378; Lanzarote, with 624; La Palma, with 217; El Hierro, with 39; and La Gomera with 72.
Since the last balance, 252 epidemiological discharges have been issued, so 102,726 people have already managed to free themselves from the pathology. However, in Canarian hospitals there are 58 patients with Covid admitted to critical areas – one less than the day before – and 294 on the ward – three more. In home monitoring there are 19,056 patients.
Right now, the cumulative incidence in the last seven days stands at 541.88 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and that of the last 14 in 751.12 frames on the same population number.
Until Tuesday, the vaccination teams of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) had administered 20,027 serums against the virus to the pediatric population between 5 and 11 years old, which represents 14.6% of the group. Until that moment, 1,743,020 people had completed the inoculation schedule in the Islands, 83% of the target population.
