SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 12 May. (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, Tenerife drops to level 1 due to the improvement in its care indicators and the rest of the islands continue at the same level they were at: Gran Canaria at level 2 or medium risk, and Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro at level 1.
The indicators of the 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.
In this way, five alert levels are established (from 0 to 4) that evaluate whether the situation is Controlled Circulation, which would be the lowest, or low, medium, high or very high risk, collects a note from the Ministry .
CARE INDICATORS
Care indicators continue to evolve favorably and the daily average number of conventional hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients falls by 15.7%.
The level of risk in percentage of occupancy of conventional beds is low or in controlled circulation for all the islands, except Gran Canaria and La Palma, which are at a medium risk level.
STABLE TREND IN OCCUPANCY OF ICU BEDS
The number of occupied ICU beds remains stable with respect to the previous evaluation and the percentage of occupancy stands at 3%, controlled circulation in the Autonomous Community as a whole and on all the islands.
The occupancy rate of ICU beds per 100,000 inhabitants remains at 0.7 ICU beds used per 100,000 inhabitants, in the last two weeks, in controlled circulation. Gran Canaria is at a low irrigation level for this indicator and the rest of the islands remain at a controlled circulation level.
INCIDENCE IN PEOPLE OVER 60 YEARS OF AGE
In the Autonomous Community as a whole, the Accumulated Incidence rate at seven days for people over 60 years of age rose 7% compared to the previous week.
All the islands are at medium risk, like the community as a whole, except El Hierro remains at high risk, although this criterion is not enough to change the risk assessment on this island.
