The Ministry of Health the Canary Islands Government today updated the health alert levels after the epidemiological report of the General Directorate of Public Health with consolidated data as of March 16. The report specifies the evolution of health indicators by COVID-19what maintains all the islands at their current levels of epidemiological alert for coronavirus.
Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro continue in alert level 3. Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and La Graciosa remain at level 2.
The health alert levels, determined by the Ministry of Health and the Autonomous Communities, evaluate the epidemiological situation of each territory based, fundamentally, on the hospital pressure -whose bed occupancy indicators are now the determinants to analyze the trend and severity caused by COVID-19- and the incidence on the transmission of the coronavirus, according to the modification established within the Interterritorial Council.
Healthcare indicators
The assistance indicators present a favorable evolution and the daily average of occupied conventional hospital beds decreases by 18.3% compared to the previous week and with an average occupancy of 5%, it remains at medium risk.
The percentage of occupation in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma and La Gomera is at a medium risk level; Fuerteventura at low risk and Lanzarote and El Hierro at a very low risk level.
The number of occupied ICU beds maintains the downward trend, decreasing by 12% compared to the previous evaluation. The percentage of occupation in the whole of the Archipelago is 9.7%. Tenerife and Gran Canaria are at a medium risk level, while the rest of the islands remain in controlled circulation.
Increase in new cases
In the Autonomous Community as a whole, between March 8 and 14, 9,162 new cases of COVID-19, which represents a 3.3% increase in the daily average of new cases in relation to the previous week.
These data respond to a 3.3% increase in the Cumulative Incidence (AI) at 7 days in the Canary Islands. From a weekly average of 407.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, it went to 421.1 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. this week.
All the islands are at a very high risk level in this indicator, except Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, which are at a medium and high risk level, respectively. The island that rises the most in this indicator is Tenerife, followed by La Gomera.
In the AI at 7 days in people over 65 years of age it rises to 29%, the whole of the Autonomous Community and all the islands are at very high risk in this indicator. The greatest increase is observed on the island of La Palma, followed by La Gomera.
In the AI at 14 days, it fell by 3.7%, although the level of risk is still very high in the whole of the Archipelago.
