New day with more than 2,000 new infections in the Islands despite the fact that the number number of diagnostic tests performed has decreased in the last week. The Department of Health of the Government of Canaria has notified this friday 2,344 new cases and six deaths with covid, five women aged 60, 71, 72, 96 and 96 years old in Tenerife and a 91 year old man in Gran Canaria. All remained in hospital admission and, except for the male, who was associated with a social outbreak, the rest had previous pathologies.
Hospitalizations have become the best indicator of how the sixth wave is evolving in the Canary Islands. For the first time there are more than 500 hospitalized for covid during this sixth wave, Since the 34 new hospitalizations in the last hours leave a balance of 524 admitted, 65 of them in ICU (+5).
The Accumulated Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 1,071.58 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 1,656.61 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
To date, a total of 2,840,686 diagnostic tests have been carried out in the Islands, of which 7,152 correspond to yesterday. Due to the decrease in the number of diagnostic tests performed, the numbers by Islands do not reflect the advance of the virus. Tenerife This day adds 849 new cases and the registry of active cases amounts to 30,311. With these indicators, the Island will probably go to level 4, as well as Gran canaria, which detects 964 cases and for the first time exceeds Tenerife in new cases during the sixth wave. On Round Island there are 19,821 active cases.
Fuerteventura adds 220 new cases and has 3,041 active; Lanzarote registers 261 cases and reaches 3,790 active; La Gomera detects 23 cases and has 169 active; The Palm it adds 10 cases and the assets amount to 1,494; Y The iron registers 16 cases and adds 182 assets.
