A new social outbreak with 12 infected by Covid is the most numerous in the Canary Islands

By area in which they have occurred, 35 are social, 32 family, 22 work, 20 educational, four health, three in socially vulnerable groups, one sports and one social health.

This week, most of the outbreaks range between three and six cases, except for one that exceeds 10 people infected, social origin, with family branching, with 12 affected reported in Tenerife.

Of the three outbreaks recorded in socially vulnerable groups notified between people arriving in the Canary Islands in patera or cayucos two have been registered in Fuerteventura and one in Gran Canaria.

The family outbreaks, all notified between families of different addresses, oscillate between three and six associated cases, except for three in Gran Canaria with ten, nine and eight infected.

The social shoots They have between three and six associated cases, except for two with family branches, registered in Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, with seven and six infected people, respectively.

Also they job outbreaks They have between three and six associated cases, except for two, both with seven associated cases: one registered in Lanzarote, with family branches, and another in Fuerteventura with social, family and educational branches.

Group infections in schools

Of the 20 educational shoots, all with family branches, thirteen have been registered in Tenerife (the majority between three and five affected, except for two with eight cases and one with nine cases), five in Gran Canaria (with ten, nine, nine, six and four cases) , one in Lanzarote (with seven cases), and one in La Palma, with social and family ramification (nine cases).

The four health outbreaks, all with family branches, one has been reported in the Bellevue Hospital (Tenerife), with five cases, including one patient and two workers, and three in the hospital. University Hospital of Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín, with five, five and three associated cases, of which three are patients.

The sports outbreak, linked to handball practice, has been reported in Lanzarote, with associated cases in Gran Canaria, and three people affected.

The socio-sanitary outbreak has been registered in a center in Gran Canaria, with nine affected, eight residents and one worker.

Ancient shoots

Health continues to monitor 29 old outbreaks, among which, as one of the most numerous, the health with family branching registered in the San Roque Meloneras Hospital, which already has 53 affected, a mixed one linked to accommodation, with 43 cases, and one of work origin, with social and family ramification, between a group of firefighters from Tenerife with associated cases on La Palma, with 41 cases.