The islands continue without changes in health alert levels
pandemic
Gran Canaria remains at level 2, with medium risk, and the rest of the islands at level 1, with low risk
The
Ministry of Health 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 in the indicators of use of care services.
According to this report,
all islands remain at the same level of alert in which they were: Gran Canaria continues at level 2 or medium risk, and the rest of the islands 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 assess whether the situation is Controlled Traffic, which would be the lowest, or low, medium, high or very high risk.
Healthcare indicators
Care indicators maintain a favorable evolution and the daily average of conventional hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients decreases by 5%. The level of risk in percentage of occupation of conventional beds is low or in controlled circulation for all the islands, except Gran Canaria, which continues at a medium risk level.
Stable trend in ICU bed occupancy
The number of occupied ICU beds continues to decline compared to the previous evaluation and the percentage of occupancy stands at
2.2%, circulation controlled throughout the Autonomous Community and all the islands.
The occupancy rate of ICU beds per 100,000 inhabitants has remained around 0.5 ICU beds used per 100,000 inhabitants, in the last two weeks and all the islands are in controlled circulation.
Incidence in people older than 60 years
In the Autonomous Community as a whole, the Accumulated Incidence rate at seven days for people over 60 years of age
rises 15% compared to the previous week. Most of the islands are at medium risk, like the Community as a whole, except La Palma, which is at low risk, and El Hierro remains at high risk.
