There are two additional COVID-19 deaths to report tonight, bringing the total deaths to ninety-six and the fatality rate to one point nine-five percent in Belize. On Tuesday night, a female in her late fifties from Orange Walk and a man in his seventies from Belmopan succumbed to the virus. There were also thirty-seven new […]
There were four more COVID-19 related deaths reported on Monday night, three males and one female. According to the Director of Health Services, two of those deaths were registered in the Toledo District, one in the Orange Walk District and the fourth death reported in the Corozal District. The COVID-19 fatality rate now stands at […]
Minister of Health and Wellness Michel Chebat has met with all regional managers to discuss the way forward. During those discussions concerns and issues were also discussed, including the horrible treatment that patients receive at the hands of medicals professionals at public medical facilities. Chebat says that he has heard a lot of complaints where […]
Every year, World Prematurity Day is observed on November seventeenth. It’s a day used to raise awareness of preterm births and the concerns associated with premature babies. And to observe the day in Belize, the K.H.M.H.’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit carried out activities to sensitize the public about the worrying increase in premature births. Reporter […]
Two P.U.P. area representatives are fighting the COVID-19 virus. They are Toledo East’s Mike Espat and Cayo West’s Jorge ‘Milin’ Espat. On social media, Espat shared that he is stable and feeling well, while being monitored. Espat said that he started to feel feverish and later tested positive for the virus. Their colleagues, Deputy Prime […]
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 […]
One of the COVID deaths over the weekend involved a well-known and beloved employee of Belize Water Services Limited. Marlon Williams was on the verge of celebrating his twentieth anniversary with the utility company when he contracted the disease. His passing has saddened his fellow colleagues at BWS where there are five active cases of […]
This afternoon, Operations Manager Dave Pascascio spoke fondly about his colleague who, at the time of his passing, was up for an appraisal. His dedication and commitment as a foreman for BWS has been formally acknowledged. Dave Pascascio, Operations Manager, BWS “It so happens that next January 2021, he would have served us twenty […]
Former Belmopan Area Representative John Saldivar is reportedly hospitalized after exhibiting symptoms that are consistent with COVID-19. While his health status is yet to be confirmed, we understand that Saldivar was missing in action from Wednesday’s elections, prompting many to question the reason behind his absence. We are also made to understand that a councilor […]
Fifty four new cases of COVID-19 were identified on Monday. Majority of those cases were confirmed in the Belize District with twenty eight cases and the Orange Walk District with fourteen cases. An addition COVID-19 related death was reported on Monday. It is a female in her sixties. She is from Orange Walk and died […]
Doctor Manzanero also spoke on the number of pregnant women who are COVID-19 positive. She says that of the seventy-one pregnant women who are COVID-19 positive, twenty six have had successful deliveries. Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services “In terms of pregnancy and COVID because we cannot forget that there are many other […]
Disaster relief amid a pandemic will prove challenging for frontline workers who are tasked with carrying out evacuation efforts in flood affected communities across the country. With a ballooning of COVID-19 cases, the exposure of coast guard and B.D.F. personnel, as well as doctors and nurses will increase considerably as they respond to the needs […]
The Belize Police Department has recorded its first COVID-related death. In recent months, the department has been hit hard by the pandemic which left more than one hundred officers off duty. But tragedy struck over the weekend, when one its own, a police officer from Patchakan, Corozal died. The twenty-five-year-old officer was tested post-mortem for […]
In respect of the latest numbers, there were ninety-eight additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday night, putting the total of confirmed cases at over four thousand. The Cayo district registered thirty-eight cases with the Belize District registering seventeen and Orange Walk registering thirteen. There are also two additional deaths to report tonight. One is […]
According to Doctor Manzanero, there are currently four intubated patients at K.H.M.H.’s COVID I.C.U. unit. He says that the private sector has two confirmed cases hospitalized, including one of the ministry’s health care workers. He says that there is a highly suspect case at a private institution in Belize City, also intubated. The ministry is […]
Manzanero also provided an update on the amount of rapid testing that have been done. He says that more than two thousand rapid tests have been conducted at the Philip Goldson International Airport so far. The number of positive cases, according to Manzanero, is on the low side. Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of […]
This afternoon, the Office of the Prime Minister confirmed that PCR results indicate that PM Dean Barrow tested negative for the coronavirus; he was swabbed on Thursday and the results were released today. The PM’s Chief of Security, Jeff Gabriel tested positive on Thursday and he had been in contact with Barrow since the start […]
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 […]
A total of seventy-two additional cases of COVID-19 were recorded on Thursday, following the processing of a batch of almost two hundred and fifty samples that were taken. A majority of those new cases, thirty-six, came from Orange Walk District where the transmission level is high. While there were thirty recoveries, there are presently one […]
On Wednesday night we told you about the three COVID-related deaths recorded that day. Two of the patients who died were hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. COVID-19 Unit and the third death was a patient at the Northern Regional Hospital from Orange Walk. This brings the total number of deaths to sixty-four. A breakdown of the […]
Tonight, there is concern that the coronavirus has reached the Office of the Prime Minister. Credible information is that one of the drivers has tested positive so the entire staff is being swabbed for the virus. The office, we are told, is closed pending the results of the tests. In response to our query, the […]
Hurricane Eta has weakened to a tropical depression. While Belize was spared the wrath of the hurricane-force winds, it did not spare us from the heavy rains it dumped across the country for the past four days and counting. The constant deluge has led to dangerous floods. In Central and Southern Belize, some families have […]
The latest COVID-19 results were released late on Tuesday night – and it was another night of record breaking positive results for Belize. The latest infographic reveals that PCR tests show that one hundred and sixty-six persons tested positive for the virus in one day. Prior to this, only one other single day registered recorded […]
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 […]
As you heard a short while ago, the Ministry of Health is concerned about the growing COVID-19 cases in southern Belize, particularly as it relates to the banana farms. As a part of its containment measures, the ministry was able to get its southern team out to the farms today. Here’s what Doctor Manzanero knows […]
