SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands have registered 2,891 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, so the total number of cases accumulated in the Islands since the start of the pandemic is already 185,717 with 65,299 active, of which 65 are admitted to the ICU and 480 remain hospitalized.
In the last hours the death of nine people has been reported: six in Tenerife, two in Gran Canaria and one in Lanzarote, pending validation by the General Directorate of Public Health. The total of deaths with COVID-19 in the Islands since the pandemic began already rises to 1,204.
The Accumulated Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 1,229.21 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days in 1,800.64 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. To date, a total of 2,864,037 diagnostic tests have been carried out in the Islands, of which 9,194 correspond to yesterday.
By islands, Tenerife today adds 1,048 cases with a total of 91,532 accumulated cases and 32,911 epidemiologically active cases; Gran Canaria has 66,287 accumulated cases, 1,244 more than the previous day and 22,495 active. Lanzarote adds 182 new cases with 13,153 accumulated and 4,386 epidemiologically active; Fuerteventura has 8,783 accumulated cases, with 176 new cases and 3,430 active cases.
La Palma adds 186 new positives, so it has 4,064 accumulated and 1,703 assets; La Gomera adds 38 new cases, has 1,068 and its assets are 217; El Hierro adds 17 new positives, so its accumulated are 818 and it has 149 active cases.
The Ministry of Health recalls that these data published today on the Grafcan portal are provisional and are pending validation by the Public Health teams. In this way, the dynamics of the Alerts and Emergencies Coordination Center is followed, which does not receive epidemiological information from the Autonomous Communities on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
For this reason, the data may vary once they are epidemiologically reviewed and consolidated by the General Directorate of Public Health according to the established protocols, so that in the coming days discrepancies may arise in the updating of the data contained on the Grafcan website.
