COVID-19 Cases Continue to Climb

The Ministry of Health and Wellness recorded two more COVID-related deaths today.  A male from the Toledo District and a female from the Orange Walk District lost their battle with the deadly virus.  An additional ninety-two COVID-19 cases were also identified, bringing the total of confirmed cases to five thousand, five hundred and fifteen and active cases to two thousand, three hundred and sixty-three.  The two northern districts continue to consistently record increasing numbers.  National Surveillance Officer, Lorena Perez says that issues with the transmission rate are being experienced in Orange Walk and Corozal.

Lorena Perez, National Surveillance Officer, M.O.H.W.

“We can highlight that the problem when it comes to transmissibility is really in the Orange Walk and Corozal Districts. This heat map is an attempt at showing you where the hotspots are, where the clusters are or the outbreak. The color coded map is just showing you the districts first that have the highest numbers of cases and then you look at the heat component of it which shows you the communities where most of the cases that are being reported. And it is using this information that the Minister highlighted the areas that are considered prorate. So that is up to midnight last night. We had a total of twenty nine six hundred and sixty eight persons tested. Of these, twenty three thousand are negative and almost six thousand or twenty percent of these tests have proven to be positive. So our positivity rate is twenty point one percent. Of course as the minister mentioned earlier we have over two thousand samples pending and out of this the projected positivity rate again as I said depends where these samples are really coming from. Up to this morning, the hospitalization stands at fifty four persons with nine persons at the Intensive Care Unit. Up to yesterday, last night midnight we had recorded a hundred and twenty nine deaths and two thousand seven hundred cases had recovered.”