SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 19 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Canary Islands have provisionally registered 1,209 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, so the total accumulated cases in the Islands since the start of the pandemic is already 277,612 with 16,860 active, of which 53 are hospitalized. in ICU and 376 remain hospitalized.
Likewise, in the last few hours no death has been reported in the Canary Islands linked to the coronavirus, something that has not happened since last December 12. Since then, the Islands have registered deaths with COVID-19 daily.
The Accumulated Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 264.07 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 529.61 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. To date, a total of 3,213,975 diagnostic tests have been carried out on the Islands, of which 6,246 correspond to yesterday.
By islands, Tenerife today has 511 cases with a total of 128,280 accumulated cases and 6,775 epidemiologically active cases; Gran Canaria has 103,374 accumulated cases, 491 more than the previous day and 7,850 active; Lanzarote adds 51 new cases with 19,256 accumulated and 377 epidemiologically active; Fuerteventura has 13,989 accumulated cases, with 90 new cases and 1,381 active ones.
La Palma adds 45 new positives, so it has 9,320 accumulated and 346 active; El Hierro adds six new cases, so it has 1,722 accumulated and its assets are 38, and La Gomera has 15 more new positives, so its accumulated is 1,670 and it has 38 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 Alert and Emergency Coordination Center are followed, which does not receive epidemiological information from the Autonomous Communities on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
For this reason, the data may change once they are epidemiologically reviewed and consolidated by the General Directorate of Public Health according to the established protocols, so discrepancies may arise in the coming days in the updating of the data contained on the Grafcan website.
