The first outbreak of coronavirus that has been recorded on the island of La Graciosa since the pandemic began has forced its three protagonists and 47 more people with whom they have had close contact to be isolated, according to the Canary Islands Ministry of Health. The smallest of the Canary Islands has 737 inhabitants, according to the latest data published by the National Institute of Statistics, so this incident means that almost 7% of its population will be forced to quarantine.
The three cases have already been diagnosed with PCR tests and it has been ruled that the infections occurred as a result of family relationships.
Now the 47 close contacts of the positives will go through the PCR tests, so whatever the result they will have to keep ten days of isolation, as established by the protocols. La Graciosa was one of the territories that during the de-escalation served as an advance guard for the rest of Spain in the phase changes, because throughout the state of alarm it did not suffer a single case of covid-19.
This summer an isolated contagion was detected in a peninsular tourist who was spending a few days on the island, but so far no outbreak had occurred among its population (an outbreak is considered to be three or more interrelated cases). The Canary Islands currently have a coronavirus incidence rate of 133 accumulated cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, the second lowest in the country, after Asturias (111), according to the latest data published by the Ministry of Health (8 of January) and the Ministry (January 7). The closest island to La Graciosa, Lanzarote, has an incidence of 178 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and Teguise, the municipality on which it depends administratively, has an incidence of 89 per 100,000.
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