The vice president of the Official College of Pharmacists of Las Palmas, Margarita Benítez, warned this weekend that the entire tourism environment in the south of the island is contaminated with Covid19 and has asked labor authorities and citizens to take extreme precautionary measures. . "In the south there is also a lot of covid. In all the pharmacies we have detected a brutality of cases in recent days," says the apothecary about the marked increase in sales of masks and diagnostic tests," said Benítez. Cofarca assures that sales have skyrocketed in the Canary Islands and that they hope to double the usual sales of anticovid tests, which in recent months were around 5.000 units per month.
In the south of Gran Canaria, the increase in cases has been associated with the fact that "many pharmacy staff have also succumbed to a virus that increasingly resembles a common cold" and he added: "there are many cases and what I tell my patients that we have to remain alert," reports Canarias7. The vice president of the Official College of Pharmacists of Las Palmas has expressed her fear that "this new wave will impact vulnerable people, especially those who suffer from respiratory or heart failure."
In the south of Gran Canaria this rebound began almost a month ago, but when we are realizing it is now. "We are infecting everyone because measures are not being taken to stop the circulation of the virus," laments Benítez. The general director of Public Health, José Díaz-Flores, has indicated that "in the last two weeks, covid cases have increased in the Canary Islands. Although the incidence of respiratory infections has remained flat during the year - around 700 cases- Covid19 had been present in less than 5% of infections. In recent weeks there has been an increase and now covid represents between 12% and 15% of infections.
