SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 5 Jan. (EUROPA 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 and establishes that the island of La Gomera rises to alert level 2 –medium risk– before the evolution of their covid-19 care indicators.
The rest of the islands continue at the same alert level in which they were in such a way that Gran Canaria remains at level 2 and the rest at level 1 or low risk.
In the case of La Gomera, although in the rest of the indicators it remains at low risk or controlled circulation, like the other islands, in the last week there has been an increase in the occupancy indicators due to covid in conventional beds, which They are at medium and high risk.
For this island, the effective date of alert level 2 will be until January 19, 2023, inclusive, being subject to periodic reassessments, even before the indicated date, reports the Ministry of Health in a note.
The indicators for the use of health services, referring to the occupancy 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.
In the Autonomous Community as a whole, the daily average of conventional hospital beds occupied by covid-19 patients stands at 2.43 percent.
The level of risk in percentage of occupancy of conventional beds is at a low risk level or in controlled circulation, except for La Gomera, which rises to a high risk level.
The number of occupied ICU beds remains in controlled circulation on all the islands, with an occupancy rate of 3.2 percent and an average weekly occupancy of 16 beds.
The ICU bed occupancy rate per 100,000 inhabitants remains at an average of 0.55 ICU beds occupied per 100,000 inhabitants, all the islands continuing in controlled circulation, except Lanzarote, which is at low risk.
In the Autonomous Community as a whole, the seven-day Cumulative Incidence rate for people over 60 years of age stands at 180.1 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and all the islands remain at a low risk level or controlled circulation.
