The Ministry of Health of Canary Islands Government today updated 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 the indicators of use of healthcare services.
According to this report, Gran Canaria down to level 2 or medium risk Y The Palm passes to level 1 or low risk due to the improvement of its care indicators. The rest of the islands remain at the same alert level as they were: Tenerife and El Hierro at level 2 or medium risk, and Lanzarote (where La Graciosa is included epidemiologically), Fuerteventura and La Gomera at level 1, or risk. bass.
The indicators of use of health services, referring to the occupation of beds are fundamentally those that mark the seriousness caused by the 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.
Healthcare indicators
In the whole of the Autonomous Communitythe daily average of conventional hospital beds occupied by covid-19 patients decreases by 16.3 percent. The level of risk in percentage of occupancy of conventional beds remains at a medium level for the Canary Islands. El Hierro oscillates between a high and medium risk level, Gran Canaria drops to a medium risk level and the rest of the islands are at a low risk level or controlled circulation.
ICU bed occupancy trend
The number of ICU beds occupied is twenty-seven beds on average in the last week and the percentage of occupancy stands at 5.4 percent, remaining at a low risk level in the Autonomous Community as a whole, although all the islands are in controlled circulation for this indicator, except Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Fuerteventura, which remain at a low risk level.
The occupancy rate of ICU beds per 100,000 inhabitants drops to 1.19 ICU beds occupied per 100,000 inhabitants and all the islands are in controlled circulation, except for Gran Canaria, which falls to a low risk level, and Tenerife, which ranges between low risk and controlled circulation.
Incidence in people older than 60 years
In the Autonomous Community as a whole, the Accumulated Incidence rate at seven days for people over 60 years of age continues to decline, with a decrease of 34 percent compared to the previous week. In this sense, all the islands registered decreases and remain at a medium risk level, except La Gomera, which descended to a low risk level.
