Total number of tests taken in the Canary archipelago

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Does anyone have testing figures?

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Up to 23 cases by 5pm this afternoon. 22 are active.

https://www.ondafuerteventura.es/fuertev...KZR-gL7pRA

My greatest fear is that the number of confirmed cases does not vary greatly to the numbers tested. My optimism is constantly kicked in the teeth by my naturally pessimistic view of Fuerteventura's media.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

From RadioSintonia today:

Almost 8000 people have been tested in the Canary Islands of the COVID-19


In the Canary Islands, since the beginning of the health crisis, the Ministry of Health enabled five laboratories to carry out these tests: those of the four reference hospital centers in each of the capital islands and that of the José Molina Orosa Hospital in Lanzarote, although this last at retail rate, given the lower availability of materials for analysis.
According to the latest records, the Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria Hospital Complex (CHUNSC) has carried out some 4,500 tests from its area of action that includes Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the South of the island as well as the islands of La Gomera and El Hierro.
The Canary Islands University Hospital Complex (CHUC) has carried out 2,000 tests both in the municipality of La Laguna and in the north of the island and on La Palma.
In the province of Las Palmas, the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria has carried out approximately 1,300 tests and the Maternal and Child Insular University Hospital Complex (CHUIMI) has carried out more than 1,200; the rest have been carried out by the José Molina Orosa Hospital in Lanzarote.
The Government of the Canary Islands insists on the need to extend the diagnostic tests to a greater number of people, first of all to health and socio-health personnel and to essential bodies such as the security forces and the operators of the citizen service telephone lines.

For this reason, the regional executive has insisted that the Ministry of Health carry out the shipment of the committed rapid tests in the shortest possible time in order to be able to determine with greater precision the situation of the pandemic in the islands and to be able to carry out the pertinent health action and foresee possible scenarios for subsequent actions.

Tamara: looks like no analysis is actually taking place on Fuerte! Must be going over to Lanza or GC.

[Jason W]

so they are going to test every resident ?

[Spitfire58]

Think that would cover about 50%. The population is approx 100k isn’t it ?

[Archer]

There's always hope and it sounds positive.

Hope they're better than the last batch from China which turned out to be faulty and were returned!

Watch out if you find any for sale on ebay, it will be returned Chinese cr*p 

[Johnrgby]

It will be interesting if not a bit worrying if the infection levels rise following the results of these tests! are our low numbers of active cases down to the fact that there has been very little testing? does anyone know the lead time between test and result?

[Spitfire58]

It will be interesting if not a bit worrying if the infection levels rise following the results of these tests! are our low numbers of active cases down to the fact that there has been very little testing? does anyone know the lead time between test and result?

I would have to agree John. It seems very likely the number of cases will rise, possibly quite dramatically. With the low level of testing so far (principally hospital cases & workers) I understand there has been almost no general public testing. The number of cases has stayed low due to the lockdown but I am sure there are likely to be a relatively high number of infections out there that haven’t been found

[Lorena]

Translated using google FuerteventuraHoy today.
This is a very interesting read.

Less than 24 hours after the Government of the Canary Islands publicly informed that the 125 analyzes carried out on the residents and workers of the Residence for the Elderly of Casillas del Ángel had given negative results (https://www3.gobiernodecanarias.org/noticias/sanidad -and-social-rights-perform-test-almost-2-200-users-and-workers-of-nursing-homes /), and just two hours after the Health Minister himself ratified this balance In the Parliament of the Canary Islands, the Majorera society has just learned that three people related to said residence are affected, and that the results of another 40 more remain to be known.

Wishing first of all a complete recovery of those affected and that no new cases be found, from AM-CC we do want to warn of the serious irresponsibility and concern that the management of the Canary Islands Government is causing in Fuerteventura.

Yesterday, April 16, the Government reported that a total of 2,200 users and workers had been screened at the nursing homes in the Canary Islands, of which 125 belonged to the Island of Fuerteventura.


The results showed an incidence of only 6 cases in the Canary Islands of asymptomatic positive people, in the Islands of Tenerife (2) and Gran Canaria (4). None among the 125 analyzes of the nursing home in Fuerteventura.

But it is that this same noon the Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands confirmed these data within the framework of an appearance in the Parliament of the Canary Islands. No one affected among the 125 analyzes of Fuerteventura.

On the Island, the news was received with relief, both by workers and by users of the residence, and society as a whole. Since our elders constitute the sector of the population most susceptible to COVID 19, and having the certainty of being free of infection through tests is the best option.

However, now we see how the information collected indicates that something did not add up. Apparently, the workers and users of Casillas del Ángel had to pass two different tests of COVID 19 the same day (Wednesday, April 15).

First they passed a quick test by the Fuerteventura Council. It was a quick test carried out by the Cabildo, with a very low degree of reliability. The results of those 125 tests were those that the Government of the Canary Islands assumed yesterday as their own and those that the counselor confirmed on Friday in Parliament.

The worst thing is that they were also considered PCR tests, that is, highly reliable, when they were not.

But the Fuerteventura Health personnel did not settle for what they were ordered to do from the Cabildo. The diligence and concern of the restrooms (not of the Area Directorate, absent in all this process) ensured that immediately on the 15th, another 125 tests were carried out by themselves and Casillas residents. A second analysis that were from PCR tests (more effective).

It is those results that this afternoon are being partially disclosed, since all the analyzes are not yet finished.

It is these results that demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the Canary Islands Government in its official balance yesterday.

It is these same results that also demonstrate the incompetence of the Minister of Health, when at noon in the Parliament of the Canary Islands he continued to maintain the erroneous data derived from the analysis commissioned by the Cabildo, and not the real ones made by the Health personnel themselves. .

The counselor ignored or listened to the health professionals of Fuerteventura.

From the Majorera Assembly - Canary Coalition we demand that those responsible for the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Fuerteventura apologize to the users and workers of the Residence for the problems generated.

Also, that responsibilities be refined in those people who have provided and ordered the performance of such rapid tests, which have ended up showing as ineffective.

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The Spanish government are alone in their confidence with the antibody test. Giving false negatives deem them useless. It is the unreliability of these which has prompted the UK government's abandonment of the 3m kits that they have. I applaud whoever it was that insisted on the subsequent PCR tests being carried out.