SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 27 (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 with consolidated data as of January 26 and has raised La Gomera to level 3 of alert in the face of unfavorable evolution of its epidemiological indicators.
The rest of the islands maintain the same level of alert in which they were. This means that Tenerife, Gran Canaria and La Palma remain at alert level 4; and Fuerteventura, El Hierro and Lanzarote (where La Graciosa is included epidemiologically) remain at level 3.
The change in level of the island of La Gomera will come into force at 00:00 hours next Monday, January 31, being subject to periodic re-evaluations, the Ministry details in a note.
In the Autonomous Community as a whole, between January 18 and 24, 17,026 new cases of COVID-19 were reported, which represents a reduction of around 47.8% in the daily average of new cases in relation to the previous week, data that respond to the decrease of 49.2% of the Cumulative Incidence (AI) at 7 days in the Canary Islands.
Thus, from a weekly average of 1,539.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, it went to 782.5 cases this week.
The only increase is observed in El Hierro, which increased by 26.2%, while the island that fell the most in incidence at 7 days was Lanzarote, which fell by 63.9%.
However, all the islands are at a very high risk level in this indicator, as is the case with the AI at 7 days in people over 65 years of age and in the AI at 14 days who are at very high risk in all the islands, although in both indicators there were decreases of 39% and 21.4%, respectively.
CARE INDICATORS
Regarding care indicators, the daily average number of occupied conventional hospital beds increased by 17.3% compared to the previous week and is at high risk.
The percentage of occupation in Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote is at a very high risk level; in Fuerteventura and La Palma at high risk and in La Gomera and El Hierro at medium risk.
The number of occupied ICU beds maintains the upward trend, increasing by 8.6 percent compared to the previous evaluation.
The occupancy rate in the archipelago as a whole is 22.3%. Tenerife and Gran Canaria are at a very high risk level, Fuerteventura remains at a medium risk level, while the rest of the islands are in controlled circulation.
MIDDLE AGE
The median age of the total number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the last 30 days is 71 years and 65 years of those admitted to the ICU, all being over 16 years of age, while the median age of those who died in the last 30 days is 80 years, with a range from 44 to 90 years.
41.2% of people admitted to critical care units diagnosed during the last 30 days had not received the complete vaccination schedule, a high percentage if one takes into account that only 18.5 percent of the population over 5 years has not yet been vaccinated.
81% of people admitted for COVID and diagnosed in the last 30 days had no previous pathologies.
This percentage increases in unvaccinated patients, in whom 86.1% had no other known pathologies, an important figure if one takes into account that without complete vaccination only 18.5% of the population over 5 archipelago years.
SITUATION OF LA GOMERA
La Gomera presents all the indicators of accumulated incidents at a very high risk level and in terms of care capacity it presents one of the indicators at high risk and due to the peculiarities of its small population and its health area, the determination of the risk levels requires the assessment of complementary indicators.
Regarding the island of Lanzarote, the report states that the data indicates that the island may continue at alert level 3, but it is necessary to continue to closely monitor the evolution of the care capacity indicators in the coming days in case there is any change in high impact at the hospital level.
