New black day due to covid in a record December in the Canary Islands. The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands notify this wednesday 4,914 new infections and seven deaths in the Islands, what leaves a cumulative 143,785 positives and 1,125 deaths throughout the pandemic. The number of hospitalized patients also grew to 422 admitted (+28), while ICU patients remained at 67. Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and La Palma register their highest number of daily cases of the entire pandemic. The total of active cases is 36,965 (+4,118), also the highest of the entire pandemic. The new registrations amount to 790 in the last hours.
Of the seven people who died in the last hours, four have been in Tenerife, two in Gran Canaria and one in Lanzarote, all between 51 and 91 years old. Five of the deceased had previous pathologies, while the death of Lanzarote, a 59-year-old woman, It occurred on Saturday and Public Health confirmed it last Wednesday at noon.
By islands, Tenerife, which remains at level 3, it is still where more infections are registered. 2,724 in the last hours, which is 11,773 in the last 7 days. Gran Canaria, also at level 3, adds 1,507 infections (6,463 in the last week). Lanzarote registers 352 cases, Fuerteventura 135, The Palm 148, La Gomera 32 and The iron fifteen.
Accumulated Incidence (AI) continues to rise and stands at 944.51 cases per 100,000 inhabitants at 7 days and in 1,502.65 cases at 14 days.
Until this Tuesday, a total of 2,712,921 diagnostic tests with a rate of positive 20.74% of which 21,492 correspond to this Monday.
Hospitalizations
Canary Islands December started with 245 hospitalized due to covid two days after the month is closed and the year has 422, almost double. Own Canarian executive spokesperson, Julio Pérez, acknowledged in the press conference after the Governing Council that a “misleading first impression” despite the fact that the rate of hospitalization grows slowly compared to that of infections. Pérez states that Tenerife and Gran Canaria have more healthcare capacity and the pressure on ICUs is also “less”, but hospital admissions are at rates that “they force to make decisions”.
Also, as in recent days, the average age of infections is between 20 and 40 years and with “high proportion” of unvaccinated people.
At the moment they remain alert levels for covid in the capital islands and meetings of up to 10 people on New Year’s Eve and January 1. It has not yet been decided on Twelfth Night.
