SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 19 May. (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, carried out in accordance with the new criteria of the Surveillance and Control Strategy for COVID-19 after the acute phase of the pandemic, based on indicators of use of care services.
According to this report, all the islands remain at the same alert level as they were: Gran Canaria continues at level 2 or medium risk and the rest of the islands at level 1.
The indicators of the use of health services, referring to the occupation of beds, are fundamentally those that mark the severity caused by COVID-19, and those that are taken into consideration to determine the level of health risk.
In this way, five alert levels are established (from 0 to 4) that assess whether the situation is one of controlled circulation, which would be the lowest, or low, medium, high or very high risk.
CARE INDICATORS
Care indicators maintain a favorable evolution and the daily average of conventional hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients decreases by 5%.
The level of risk in percentage of occupation of conventional beds is low or in controlled circulation for all the islands, except Gran Canaria, which continues at a medium risk level.
STABLE TREND IN OCCUPANCY OF ICU BEDS
The number of occupied ICU beds continues to decline compared to the previous evaluation and the percentage of occupancy stands at 2.2%, controlled circulation in the Autonomous Community as a whole and on all the islands.
The occupancy rate of ICU beds per 100,000 inhabitants remains at around 0.5 ICU beds used per 100,000 inhabitants in the last two weeks and all the islands are in controlled circulation.
INCIDENCE IN PEOPLE OVER 60 YEARS OF AGE
In the Autonomous Community as a whole, the Seven-day Accumulated Incidence rate for people over 60 years of age rose 15% compared to the previous week.
Most of the islands are at medium risk, like the Community as a whole, except La Palma, which is at low risk, and El Hierro remains at high risk.
