A higher percentage of people who are tested for coronavirus have tested positive in the last week. The test of covid carried out in the Canary Islands have detected a rebound in positivity, which today stands at 26%, seven percentage points above the figure that was considered a month ago and with an upward trend now.
This increase is motivated by a change in the trend that is more pronounced in the western islands. La Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma have experienced this week an increase in their epidemic curves of between 15% and 50%. The latter is the case of El Hierro, which has gone from accumulating just 75 weekly cases to reaching 113. Along these lines, Tenerife has also experienced an increase in its epidemic curve of 21%, accumulating more than 5,000 positives per week. week (at the end of February it stabilized at 2,800).
In the eastern province, only Fuerteventura and Lanzarote show a growing trend in terms of their coronavirus cases, although much less pronounced than that detected in the western islands. In both cases, their epidemic curves have increased between 16 and 17%. Gran Canaria is the only island where the contagion curve maintains a downward trend. Cases have dropped 31% in the last week. For its part, the positivity of its tests has remained stable at 24%.
Hospital pressure remains at 315 admissions for covid, which represents a stabilization of its curve.
These data are consistent with those collected in the weekly report of Microbiological Control in Wastewater as an epidemiological indicator of early warning of the spread of covid-19. This document, which studies the amount of viral particles contained in wastewater at two stations in the Canary Islands (Barranco Seco in Gran Canaria and Adeje in Tenerife), shows that, from February 27 to March 5, there was an increase in the amount of viruses detected in the wastewater of Tenerife. A circumstance that had not occurred since the beginning of January. As far as Gran Canaria is concerned, virus concentrations in wastewater remain stable but are falling.
income is maintained
Hospital pressure, for its part, remains at 315 admissions for covid, which represents a stabilization of its curve. Of these patients, 285 are occupying a hospitalization bed on the ward and 30 in the ICU. This number of hospitalized patients is the lowest in the Canary Islands since mid-December, but it is still higher than it was prior to the sixth wave. Gran Canaria remains with 178 hospitalized (16 of them in ICU) and Tenerife has 127 (13 of them in critical care).
On both islands, those hospitalized who require intensive surveillance due to the severity of their condition are similar to the remnant of people hospitalized for covid before the omicron variant became part of the pandemic scenario in the Canary Islands. However, when it comes to hospital admissions – which has been the health sector most affected by this sixth wave – they are still higher than the number of patients before the massive contagion broke out in December.
March stabilizes deaths
So far in March, 29 people have died in the Canary Islands from coronavirus. This week, the deaths amount to 17, a figure that has been maintained since the beginning of the month. This Saturday Health has notified three deaths, of which two were in Tenerife and one in Fuerteventura, pending validation by Public Health.
