The coronavirus incidence data being registered right now in the Pitiusas is not real. The presidents of the island Consells of Ibiza and Formentera are very clear on this. Vicent Marà and Alejandra Ferrer emphasised yesterday that the data cannot be interpreted now in the same way as it was a few weeks ago, before the tourists arrived.
Marà pointed out yesterday that the incidence relates the number of infections to the total population of each of the islands. And it is precisely this last figure that, right now, is not real. “It does not include the floating population”, said the president of the Consell de Ibiza, who noted that the island was recording such high incidences because new cases are calculated in relation to the census when, in reality, “now there is twice the population”. In other words, if the positive figures were calculated using the total number of residents and tourists on the island as a basis, the data would be much lower than that being recorded at the present time.
The president of the Consell of Formentera, Alejandra Ferrer, also expressed the same view. “It is necessary to talk about the real data,” she said. “While the incidence is very high, it is based on the number of inhabitants we have on the island and not on the number of people who are on the island right now, which is double the number of residents. The incidence and the rate would be halved if it were done that way,” the president stressed.