SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 9. (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 in such a way that Gran Canaria remains at level 2 or medium risk and the rest of the islands at level 1.
The indicators of 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, collects a note from the Ministry .
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 continue to evolve favorably and the daily average number of conventional hospital beds occupied by covid-19 patients remains stable.
Thus, the level of risk in percentage of occupancy of conventional beds is low for the Canary Islands and most of the islands are at a low level or in controlled circulation, except for Gran Canaria, which is between a medium and low level, and La Palma, which is It is at a medium risk level.
The number of occupied ICU beds decreases with respect to the previous evaluation and the percentage of occupancy stands at 2.8 percent, controlled circulation in the Autonomous Community as a whole and on all the islands.
The occupancy rate of ICU beds per 100,000 inhabitants drops to 0.55 ICU beds occupied per 100,000 inhabitants and all the islands are in controlled circulation, except for La Palma, which is at a low risk level.
INCIDENCE IN PEOPLE OVER 60 YEARS OF AGE
In the Autonomous Community as a whole, the cumulative incidence rate at seven days for people over 60 years of age amounts to 19 percent compared to the previous week.
Most of the islands are at medium risk, as is the community as a whole, except for La Palma and La Gomera, which are at low risk, and El Hierro remains at high risk.
