SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 29. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Canary Islands have registered 4,087 new cases of COVID-19 since the last update made last Friday, so the total accumulated cases in the Islands since the start of the pandemic is 333,243, with 13,700 active, of which 17 are admitted in ICU and 188 remain hospitalized.
The Islands have also registered nine deaths since the last update on March 25, five of them were reported in Tenerife and four in Gran Canaria. All the people, aged between 57 and 95 years, had previous pathologies and were hospitalized.
The Accumulated Incidence at 7 days in the Canary Islands stands at 425.79 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 14 days at 876.44 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. To date, a total of 3,418,822 diagnostic tests have been carried out on the Islands, of which 16,441 correspond to the last 96 hours.
By islands, since last Friday, Tenerife has added 1,502 cases with a total of 151,341 accumulated cases and 5,053 epidemiologically active cases; Gran Canaria has 128,159 accumulated cases, 2,128 more since Friday, and 7,342 active; Lanzarote adds 85 new cases, with 21,569 accumulated and 196 epidemiologically active; Fuerteventura has 15,710 accumulated cases, with 91 new cases and 292 active ones.
La Palma adds 195 new positives, so it has 11,880 accumulated and 573 active; La Gomera has 67 new positives, so its accumulated number is 2,519 and it has 199 active cases, and El Hierro has 19 new cases, so it has 2,065 accumulated number and its active number is 45.
Today’s data update is the last to be carried out following the general data on accumulated incidence, assets and diagnostic tests, since the COVID-19 Surveillance Strategy, agreed by the Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities , has modified the control indicators since this week, prioritizing those that allow the analysis of severity and hospital pressure.
