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The Ministry of Health is looking into the allegation of negligence at the Western Regional Hospital that has left twenty-three-year-old Edin Requeña dead. As we reported on Tuesday, Requeña was involved in an accident on the George Price Highway and was taken to the Western Regional Hospital for treatment. But according to Requeña’s brother, in […]
Written on November 4, 2020 | Posted in
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Director of Health Services, Doctor Marvin Manzanero says that while he supported the NOC’s decision to enforce a curfew on Bella Vista and Santa Cruz Village in southern Belize, that measure is not enough to address the COVID-19 situation in the banana industry. The DHS confirmed to News Five today that some twenty-seven positive cases […]
Written on November 3, 2020 | Posted in
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The Banana Growers Association initially requested that thirteen communities be placed on curfew; however, only two have been restricted by Statutory Instrument, one-fifty-six and one-fifty-seven. Chairman Antonio Zabaneh says that a majority of the labour force for the banana industry comes from Santa Cruz and Bella Vista. Toledo East Area Representative Mike Espat, whose constituency […]
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We also asked Doctor Manzanero for an update on the death of Maria Velasquez at the Philip Goldson International Airport. The seventy-one-year-old woman was experiencing respiratory complications on board a United Airlines flight over the weekend, which had to make an emergency landing in Belize. According to Doctor Manzanero, the woman did not die of […]
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So, there you heard the brother of the deceased express his concern over the way Edin Requeña was treated at the Western Regional Hospital. This evening when we spoke with the Director of Health Services, we asked him about the incident. Doctor Manzanero told us that he found out about it today and has since […]
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Sometime after one-thirty on Sunday afternoon, a United Airlines flight out of Houston en route to El Salvador had to make an emergency stop in Belize at the Philip Goldson International Airport. One of the passengers onboard, seventy-one-year-old Maria Velasquez, had a medical issue. According to reports, Velasquez was vomiting and exhibiting respiratory distress. While […]
Written on November 2, 2020 | Posted in
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A mother in Ladyville is mourning the sudden death of her three-month-old baby. The mother crushed the infant during an epileptic seizure at her home over the weekend. Tracy Webster reported to police that she was at home holding her baby when she had an epilepsy attack that caused her to tighten her hold around […]
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Webster, we’ve confirmed has suffered with epilepsy since childhood. She is an only child and lost her mother to cancer over a year ago. Residents who know her say that her daughter brought tremendous joy to her, but unfortunately, the neurological disorder caused the death of her baby. Webster was also a member of the […]
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The country continues to be ravaged by the COVID pandemic as the number of cases continues to grow especially so in the district of Orange Walk. Tonight there is another COVID-19 to report, bringing the total number of casualties to fifty-nine. The victim is a female in her forties who had underlying conditions and died […]
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With elections to be held next week Wednesday; government has disbanded the National Oversight Committee which had been functioning since the start of the pandemic in March. The last meeting of the N.O.C. was today, one of its final decisions was to support, in part, a request from the Banana Growers Association for the imposition […]
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There is alarming news tonight from the Director of Health Services on the coronavirus. As many as six persons have died over the last twenty-four hours due to COVID-19. The latest death was confirmed during an interview conducted this evening with Director of Health Doctor Marvin Manzanero. This brings the total of persons who have […]
Written on October 30, 2020 | Posted in
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Now, as many as one hundred and twenty-one cases of COVID-19 were indentified on Thursday. That is the largest number of new cases that the country has recorded in one day. Four hundred and fifteen samples were processed which resulted with positivity rate of twenty-nine point two percent. The Corozal district recorded the highest number […]
Written on October 30, 2020 | Posted in
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And the deteriorating COVID situation can get worse; the Ministry of Health is monitoring nineteen banana plantations in the south where COVID-19 clusters are growing at these banana plantations. According to Doctor Manzanero, the virus can thrive in banana farms into larger clusters if face masks are used and other safety measures are ignored […]
Written on October 30, 2020 | Posted in
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With the health services under stress, Doctor Manzanero also addressed disturbing reports of a suspected COVID patient who was refused admission at a private facility in Corozal and at the K.H.M.H. The private facility turned down the patient until a down payment was made or clearance from the Ministry of Health was received. So the […]
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With the number of cases out of control, the Ministry of Health today announced its intention to start using antigen rapid testing for COVID-19 using established protocols. Doctor Marvin Manzanero says that after completing a validation exercise with the SD Biosensor Antigen testing kit and following international recommendations, use of this antigen testing kit will only be […]
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The number of active COVID-19 cases in Orange Walk is increasing by about twenty to thirty new cases daily and with over one thousand one hundred and seventy positive cases identified in that district, it remains the epicentre of the virus. And while the ComPol is looking at enforcement of measures, we were asked the […]
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Turning to the prison where the virus has also spread….on Thursday, the news broke that ninety inmates tested positive for COVID-19. Rapid tests were done at the Belize Central Prison where staff and inmates were tested. Today we spoke with C.E.O. of the Kolbe Foundation Virgilio Murillo who says that ninety-seven percent of those afflicted […]
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And how does the prison plan to contain the spread? Murillo says that they have implemented an additional fourteen day quarantine which kicked in on Tuesday of this week. So, prison visits and access to the facility are not possible at this time. He notes that those who are positive have been isolated in one […]
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With ninety-cases detected in a round of rapid testing – we asked Murillo what is accounting for the spread and how are they handling the cases? He says that the Ministry of Health is providing tremendous support to help the prison contain the spread and he is positive that with the quarantine in place they […]
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When we last spoke with C.E.O. Virgilio Murillo of the Belize Central Prison a few days ago, the number of positive cases of COVID-19 among inmates stood at nineteen. Tonight, there is alarming news of additional cases behind prison walls, and that is because of one hundred and ninety samples taken on Tuesday, a whopping […]
Written on October 29, 2020 | Posted in
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There are conflicting reports on whether the Godoy family from Orange Walk has been swabbed and tested for COVID-19. Tonight, Arturo Godoy Senior says nine days ago he was swabbed, but still the outcome of his results has not been released. In fact, Godoy Senior went on further to say that due to erroneous information […]
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The heart-wrenching death of six-year-old Arturo Godoy Junior sent shockwaves across the country. The chilling story is that the minor suffered kidney complications and died alone inside the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the K.H.M.H. Godoy Junior was taken to the Northern Regional Hospital for non-COVID related assistance and was later transferred to the Karl […]
Written on October 29, 2020 | Posted in
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It’s over seven months since Belize recorded its first case of COVID-19. From that first reported case on March twenty-third to August first, there were only fifty-six total positive cases. Within the last three months alone, that number has exploded to over three thousand positive cases. In tonight’s Healthy Living, we check in with the […]
Written on October 29, 2020 | Posted in
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The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases for the country stands at three thousand two hundred and thirty-two; of those numbers, thirty-five percent alone have been identified in the Orange Walk District, which since the outbreak of the virus, has recorded one thousand one hundred and forty-eight. There are one thousand one hundred and thirty-six […]
Written on October 28, 2020 | Posted in
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With rising COVID numbers in Orange Walk, there is added stress on the Northern Regional Hospital which is the main facility in the north for the hospitalization of critical COVID-19 patients. That aside, the NRH has to treat other patients and also engage in contact tracing. DHS Marvin Manzanero says that fortunately at this time […]
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