The incidence picks up slightly in the Canary Islands: 13 more points in four days
A health worker attends to a patient in the ICU of the Insular hospital. /
Care pressure grows with 40 more hospitalized since Friday
Canary Islands has reported 5,426 new infections since last Friday and six other deaths of people with coronavirus. With these deaths, there are already 44 infected people who have lost their lives during this month.
From March 18 to yesterday, a
average of 1,300 daily positives, a figure lower than that registered between Tuesday and last Friday. However,
the cumulative incidence at seven days has experienced a slight rise in the last four days, going from 426 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to 439, which represents a rise of 13 points.
55.2% of the new cases registered since Friday in the archipelago were diagnosed in
Gran Canaria, specifically, 2,996. On
Tenerife 1,558 new infections have been identified.
Lanzarote added 192 cases,
Fuerteventura 226,
La Palma 327,
La Gomera 103 and
El Hierro 24.
In this way, the accumulated number of confirmed infections on the islands since the start of the pandemic amounts to 323,320, of which 307,911 correspond to people who have already overcome the infection and another 1,617 died with the virus.
In these four days, the number of
active cases it has been reduced by a thousand and there are currently 13,801 people dealing with the virus in the archipelago. Of these, 28 are being treated in the
intensive care units (four less than Friday) and another 263 are
admitted to the plant (26 less). The rest of those who have the virus in progress, 13,510, are overcoming the infection at home.
INDICATORS
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slight rise
In the last week, the seven-day incidence has gone from 432 to 439 cases per 100,000 inhabitants -
infections
In the last seven days, 10,850 cases have been diagnosed, 303 more than in the previous interval -
hospital pressure
6.5% of the beds on the islands' floors are intended for covid patients and 8% of those in the ICU
In the last four days, a total of 6,562 people have received epidemiological discharge.
Despite the fact that there has been a decrease in the number of people hospitalized with the active virus, the
hospital pressure has grown slightly, according to
the report issued yesterday by the Ministry of Health. The document from the department headed by Carolina Darias puts 398 covid patients hospitalized in the Canary Islands, 40 more than the
last Friday. In addition, it specifies that in the last 24 hours 31 people have been admitted to island hospitals for covid.
The archipelago continues to be the community with
higher hospital occupancy rate caused by covid, with 18.3 beds for treating the infection per 100,000 inhabitants, almost double the national average of 9.8 beds per 100,000 inhabitants.
de-escalation
Although the fall of the epidemic curve has stagnated in the Canary Islands, where the
subvariant BA.2 of Sars-Cov-2 is already dominant, the Government of the Canary Islands maintains its plan to advance in the de-escalation and tomorrow plans to agree within the Governing Council
the withdrawal of all anticovid measures imposed by the autonomous Executive, including the limitation of groups to a maximum of twelve people and the maximum closing time of businesses at 4:00 in the morning, among other restrictions.
