COVID-19 Death Toll Stands at Sixty-six Persons

The death toll for COVID-19 in Belize presently stands at sixty-six persons, as two more patients succumbed to the illness on Thursday.   Those fatalities were recorded among two males, one was in his eighties and died at the I.C.U. COVID Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.  The other was from San Ignacio and was swabbed as a highly symptomatic case.  This evening, we spoke with Director of Health Services, Doctor Marvin Manzanero.

Marvin Manzanero

Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services

“The two most recent deaths, one is an elderly gentleman from San Ignacio who had been swabbed towards the end of last week, highly symptomatic in his eighties and he had turned out to be positive.  Of course we wanted to make the diagnosis because of the turnaround time of some patients, that takes a little bit longer to be able to document but he was confirmed as a positive case.  The other person was also, that’s an elderly male in his eighties from Orange Walk who had been referred to Karl Heusner for supportive therapy and he died yesterday.  I believe that two or three days before he died, he had a stroke.”