Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Honduras performed for the first time 715 PCR tests for the detection of COVID-19, of which 266 were positive, or 37%, thus reaching the figure of 3,743 cases. Of these, Cortés is the department that showed the highest number of confirmed with 223, which represents 83.8% of the total of positive tests. The rest of the cases correspond to 19 in Yoro, 10 in Francisco Morazán, 9 in Santa Bárbara, 2 in Olancho, 1 in Ocotepeque, 1 in La Paz and the first infected is registered in the Bay Islands.
The cases in Cortés are located in San Pedro Sula with 157, Choloma 19, 17 in Puerto Cortés, 15 in Villanueva, 5 in San Francisco, 5 in Santa Cruz de Yojoa, 2 in La Lima, 2 in Potrerillos and 1 in Pimienta. In Francisco Morazán the positives are 9 from the Central District and 1 in El Porvenir. The Bay Islands case corresponds to the municipality of José Santos Guardiola.
Of the total number of patients diagnosed with COVID-19386 are hospitalized, 342 of them in stable condition, 23 in serious condition and 21 in the intensive care unit. The rest are monitored by Health personnel.
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The National Risk Management System (Sinager) reported the death of seven more people; in Francisco Morazán, a 53-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man died, both from the Central District. While in San Pedro Sula died a 20-year-old woman, a 66-year-old woman, a man who does not specify age, another 86-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman, originally from Las Lajas, Comayagua. The number of recovered rose to 455 with the 16 that were added yesterday.
Cases in prisons.
In a statement, the National Penitentiary Institute (INP) reported that as a result of the first two cases of COVID-19 in the El Porvenir prison (1) and the Marco Aurelio Soto Penitentiary in Támara (1), Francisco Morazán, biosafety protocols have been reinforced and tests have been carried out to diagnose COVID-19 in first-time deprived. The National Virology Laboratory found 16 of them as positive. In total there are 17 inmates, plus a member of the Naval Force and a doctor, so there are 19 numbers of infections in the country’s prisons.
“Those deprived of liberty are isolated inside the prison and are stable. They have been located in an isolation area on the perimeter of the Penitentiary Center, but away from the general compound, “said Digna Aguilar, spokeswoman for the INP.
The president of the Union of Workers of the San Felipe Hospital, Elvin Canales, reported that seven employees of that healthcare center tested positive for COVID-19 and were placed in isolation.
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