SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 3. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has updated this Thursday the health alert levels after the epidemiological report of the General Directorate of Public Health with consolidated data as of March 2.
The report specifies the evolution of the health indicators for COVID-19 that allows the drop to level 3 of the island of Gran Canaria, after the improvement of its epidemiological indicators.
The rest of the islands maintain their current alert levels. This means that Tenerife, La Palma, Fuerteventura, El Hierro and La Gomera are still at level 3; and Lanzarote (where La Graciosa is epidemiologically included) at level 2.
Gran Canaria moves to level 3 due to the improvement in care impact indicators in the last 14 days, with the hospital occupancy of beds on the ward in the last two weeks going from a high risk level to a medium level, while the occupancy of beds in ICU decreases to medium risk level.
However, the Government warns that the evolution of the indicators will be closely observed in case the slightly upward evolution of the Cumulative Incidence (AI) at 7 days in the last week were maintained and had an impact on the care capacity indicators.
The level change will take effect at 00:00 this Friday.
The evolution of the epidemiological indicators in the rest of the islands still does not present a situation of sufficient stability in the improvement of the data to propose a decrease in level.
The health alert levels are determined by the Ministry of Health based on the epidemiological and care indicators that are reached weekly, the care indicators being those that currently mark the evolution of the pandemic, according to the modification established within the Interterritorial Council by the Ministry of Health and the CCAA.
CARE INDICATORS
Care indicators show a favorable evolution and the daily average number of occupied conventional hospital beds falls by 26% compared to the previous week and with an average occupancy of 8.7%, it is at high risk.
The occupation percentage of La Palma is at a high risk level; Gran Canaria and Tenerife at medium risk; El Hierro and Fuerteventura in low risk and Lanzarote and La Gomera in controlled circulation.
The number of occupied ICU beds maintains a downward trend, decreasing by 14% compared to the previous evaluation, and the percentage of occupancy in the archipelago as a whole is 13.32%, remaining at medium risk.
Gran Canaria is at a high risk level, Tenerife remains at a medium risk level, Fuerteventura at a low risk level, while the rest of the islands remain in controlled circulation.
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INDICATORS
In the Autonomous Community as a whole, between February 22 and 28, 10,026 new cases of COVID-19 were reported, which represents an increase of 44.6% in the daily average of new cases in relation to the week above, data that respond to a 44.6% increase in the Cumulative Incidence (AI) at 7 days in the Canary Islands.
Thus, from a weekly average of 318.62 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, it went to 460.76 cases per 100,000 inhabitants this week.
All the islands are at a very high risk level in this indicator, except Fuerteventura, which remains at a high risk level.
In the AI at 7 days in people over 65 years of age and in the AI at 14 days, all the islands are at very high risk, and both indicators show increases of 18 and 35%.
In the case of AI at 7 days, the islands of Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Palma and El Hierro show a decrease in this indicator, although they continue to be at very high risk.
In the AI at 14 days, all the islands remain at very high risk, except for Lanzarote.
