Health Minister Carolina Darias this Saturday called on the population to vaccinate the groups that have been determined to be administered by the Public Health Commission with the second booster dose against COVID-19 at the proposal of the Vaccine Report.
Darias stressed that vaccines “save lives and have been the turning point” to tackle the pandemic and are “the most powerful weapon to fight COVID-19”, for which he encouraged to be vaccinated in this new campaign started on September 26, as stated in Lanzarote.
In his statements, which were provided to Efe, he pointed out the latest reports which reveal a 15% increase in cumulative case incidence, a 16% increase in the employment of coronavirus patients in hospital beds and 21 % in ICU beds.
The head of health stressed that it is important for Spain to continue with a high population coverage and recalled that it is a world reference with around 93% of people over the age of 12 with complete guidelines received, more than 26 million with the first memory dose and now we must continue to “protect ourselves with the second dose”.
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, made these statements on the occasion of her visit to the Doctor Molina Orosa hospital in Lanzarote, one of the health centers in the country that benefited from the investment plan for the purchase of high-tech equipment.
COVID data in the Canary Islands
The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, following the new indicators included in the COVID-19 Surveillance and Control Strategy, agreed by the Ministry of Health with the Autonomous Communities, updated this Friday the data on infections in the Islands: 552 new positive among people over the age of 60, which is the population group that is followed after passing the acute phase of the pandemic.
The accumulated number of coronavirus cases in this group amounts to 99,227 people in the Canary Islands. Therefore, the Cumulative Incidence for this age group at 14 days stands at 227.33 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 7 days at 108.82.
Currently in the Archipelago there are 83 people hospitalized for coronavirus, of which seven in intensive care and the remaining, 76, in the ward. In the last six days there have been five deaths, three reported in Gran Canaria and two in Tenerife. All cases, between the ages of 52 and 90, had previous pathologies and were hospitalized.
Sanitary capacity
The Ministry of Health informs that since last August 12, and in compliance with the Resolution of August 5 of the General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, in the calculation of the beds occupied by patients affected by covid-19, account is taken of taking into account the number of beds occupied by patients with pneumonia or acute respiratory infection or other pathology considered attributable to a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
