Active cases of coronavirus COVID-19 in Canary Islands

[geordiediver]

I found this breakdown of the latest numbers of active cases: timed at 
11/1/2021 14:00:22

La Oliva                      60    

Puerto del Rosario        82     

Antigua                       0   (60 days since last infection)    

Betancuria                    0   (346 days since last infection = never had an infection)   

Tunieje                         15     

Pajara                          17       


Total                          174


Source:   https://grafcan1.maps.arcgis.com/apps/op...d1fd70efb6

[Captain Sensible]

It would be interesting to know why there is a difference in the figures published locally today, which indicates there are 137 active cases following 5 recoveries and 8 new cases. There is still one person in hospital - https://radiosintonia.com/ocho-nuevos-ca...ventura-2/

[Captain Sensible]

Other published figures that agree with geordiediver's post - https://www.ondafuerteventura.es/puerto-...q98yTeta-8

[Cotillo_Tom]

Two different people have told me today that there are 26 active cases in El Cotillo. 

I'm not sure where they got this information from, and I have never seen any information available that breaks down infections by community. 

Anyone have any clue where this information might have come from, other than bar room gossip or rumours on Facebook?

Tom.

[Johnrgby]

other than bar room gossip or rumours on Facebook?

Either or both of the above I would have thought Tom

[geordiediver]

I may be able to shed some light on the discrepancies.

There may well indeed be 26 cases in el Cotillo - the figures I found refer to the whole municipality of  la Oliva,  which would include el Cotillo,  Corralejo,  Lajares,  La Oliva  and all the villages in between.

The source I have been monitoring appears to be a Canarian Government data website for all the municipalities of all the islands.   It gives a host of information - active cases, deaths, medically discharged cases,  days since last infection in the municipality,  age breakdown and more.   

It is  is well worth a look.     The figures get updated every weekday at around 14:00.     It is not updated at weekends.

Here is the link for yesterday's data:


https://grafcan1.maps.arcgis.com/apps/op...d1fd70efb6


Keep safe!

[Captain Sensible]

144 active cases are reported today, following 9 recoveries and 16 new cases. No-one is in hospital.

[geordiediver]

Numbers discrepancy solved!     

My wife  put her research hat on and has found that the Gobierno   (Canary Island Government) and the Cabildo  (Fuerteventura Government)  count cases in different ways.

The Cabildo   counts actual active  cases  on the island,  irrespective from where they came from.  The status of 'irregular' immigrants is not clear.  Also a breakdown by  each municipality is  proving elusive, so far.

Hence the figures Captain Sensible is publishing are actual infections on the island, according to Fuerteventura's Government.

The figures  from the Gobierno  count infections as where the person is registered and where their health card is located.   This means, in my understanding, that someone infected on, say,  Tenerife but registered on Fuerteventura is counted as a Fuerteventura infection.  This seems to be putting the location of the health card above the location of the infection,  but there must be a reason to do it this way.  

I have enclosed a translation (thank you Google translate)  from NoticiasFuerteventura.com published 12 Jan 2021 which explains this.

"The health data that the Cabildo de Fuerteventura reports every day, received from the Canarian health service on the island, affirm that there have been 16 new infections in a bad day in this regard. On the other hand, 9 epidemiological discharges leave the daily accounting of COVID 19 at +7.
Of the 144 people currently infected in Fuerteventura, all are under home monitoring.


During the day yesterday, this digital published the data that the Canary Islands Government page offers every day (except weekends) in relation to the number of health cards of residents in Fuerteventura (for health purposes) who remain ill, they are infected or discharged from COVID 19.

In this sense, our readers return to raise the reason for the difference in insular and regional data (in this case municipalized). The answer is simple, of the 175 cases that the government records among the cards, a percentage, which usually varies between 15 and 25%, are people who, having a health card on the island, are residing outside of it. They are counted as insular, something that the daily report offered by the Cabildo does not do, which only counts people who are sick, infected or registered in Fuerteventura.

We hope that this circumstance does not complicate your understanding of the data, but we always try to clarify which is the source that issues them"

source:  https://www.noticiasfuerteventura.com/fu...en-la-isla

Keep safe

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Thanks Geordiediver, it's a good reminder of how the stats are calculated. The following thread had slipped down the forum a bit. 

https://fuerteventura.click/Thread-COVID...the-public

[Captain Sensible]

Thank you to your wife geordiediver for finding that information.

154 active cases are reported today, all at home. That's an increase of 18 new cases and following 7 recoveries.

Fuerteventura is expecting to go up to level 2 later today after the Canarian Government meets.