5 COVID Deaths Recorded between Tuesday & Wednesday
Marvin Manzanero
In other grim COVID-19 news, there are five deaths to report between Tuesday night and this afternoon. The two deaths reported on Tuesday night were two females; an elderly woman from Corozal and a young woman from Bella Vista. There’s not much information available as yet about the three deaths recorded today, but what we know is that two of them are males, one from Orange Walk and the other was at the K.H.M.H. The last two deaths were recorded late this afternoon. DHS Marvin Manzanero tells us more about these fatalities, as well as an update on the hospitalized cases.
Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services
“We have had two deaths to report from yesterday. One was a patient, who had been swabbed in Corozal. It’s a female and that person was a suspect case and that was confirmed yesterday after she had died. The other case is a younger female in her thirties from the Stann Creek area – Bella Vista, actually in Toledo linked to the banana farm outbreak that we have. She had died on the weekend. The preliminary note that we have is that she was an asthmatic patient but because of the condition, where she is coming from, we were trying to find out anybody who had any acute respiratory illness and find out what’s going on – the diagnosis was also made post mortem.”
Andrea Polanco
“At this time, how many patients remain hospitalized and how many are intubated?”
Dr. Marvin Manzanero
“The notes keep changing. We currently have two patients intubated. It seems that we have had another death we have reported via social media – not the two from yesterday’s data – by around two o’clock we had two other deaths to report and we now have a third death today. I don’t have more particulars than that as that is just coming to us now at headquarters. So, that will be three deaths and if that is the case, then we have two intubated patients at the K.H.M.H.’s COVID-19 unit – that would be one male and one female. We also have at least six other COVID-19 patients at the COVID-19 unit at Karl Heusner.”
