Deadliest Weekend for COVID-19 Related Deaths

Belize just recorded its deadliest COVID-19 weekend!  There were fifteen COVID-related deaths between Friday and Sunday.  Of that number, ten of those deaths were recorded in a single day, on Friday.  It’s an astounding increase in the number of deaths recorded within twenty-four hours.  A closer look at those deaths over the weekend show that eight males and two females died on Friday. Four of the men are from Corozal with ages in the nineties; eighties and late fifties. Two more men from Orange Walk in their sixties died; and a woman in her late forties also succumbed.  Two of the deaths are from Cayo – one man in his nineties and one woman in her late forties.  The last of the ten deaths is a man in his sixties from Belize City.  A note from the Office of Director of Health Services says that three of the persons died at the K.H.M.H.’s COVID-19 unit and the others died at community or regional hospitals or were pronounced dead on arrival at health facilities.  Of the three deaths recorded on Saturday, two are men from Orange Walk and one man from Belize City in their forties, sixties, and seventies. In the two deaths from Sunday, one is a woman in her nineties, who according to the Ministry, was being managed in a private medical facility but died at the Western Regional Hospital.  The second death is a man in his seventies who died at the San Ignacio Community Hospital. And so those are the deaths recorded over the last three days. There were also a high number of COVID-19 cases confirmed over the past three days. On Friday, one hundred and nineteen were identified; sixty-eight recorded on Saturday and seventy-eight confirmed on Sunday.  The total COVID-19 active cases now stand at two thousand one hundred and seventy-three.