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The Canary Islands have left behind the last covid surge transmission of which skyrocketed in the archipelago from late May to early July. In addition, the acute respiratory infections have fallen overall over the last three weeks, reaching their lowest circulation levels in the past year.
Thus, if at the beginning of July the infections by flu, bronchiolitis and covid in the archipelago were close to 800 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, between July 22 and 28, the last period for which data is available, the incidence of these infections on the islands stood at 452 cases per 100,000 inhabitantsThe rate is the lowest of the current season, in which respiratory infections peaked in the Canary Islands between December 18 and 24, 2023, with 1,296 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Besides, the hospitalization rate The number of people admitted to hospital for these infections has sharply declined and the rate currently stands at just over 7 people admitted per 100,000 inhabitants, said yesterday the Director General of Public Health of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS), José Díaz-Flores.
«Currently in the Canary Islands there are 76 people admitted for covid71 in the ward and five in the intensive care units. In the last five days the number of people admitted has dropped by 25%. This decrease is due to the fact that there are hardly any new admissions for covid and many discharges are being given,” explained Díaz-Flores, who specified that Sars-Cov-2 is currently in around 10% of the respiratory infections analyzed, that is, it has reduced its presence by half in the last weeks.
Covid patients currently occupy 1.8% of hospital beds in the archipelago. “In the last surge we had 129 Covid patients hospitalised, with 19 people in critical care units. These hospitalisations have not exceeded 2% of total admissions,” said Díaz-Flores, referring to hospital occupancy figures similar to those in the rest of Spain.
“The increase in cases occurred between the end of May and June. In July there has been a continued decline,” said the Director General of Public Health with relief, who sees a similar pattern in the latest coronavirus surges. “When we get new variants“There is a spike in infections among people who have lost their immunity. The peak lasts a month or a month and a half. Once this period has passed, infections stabilize,” said the expert.
Díaz-Flores understands that the latest wave of covid was linked to the appearance of two new strains of the virus, KP.2 and KP.3, which spread rapidly throughout the United States and arrived in Spain and the Canary Islands in May.
In any case, Díaz-Flores understands that the evolution of respiratory infections is a roller coaster and that this respite must be taken advantage of to prepare for the next one. vaccination campaign which will simultaneously protect vulnerable people from influenza and Covid.
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