Managua Nicaragua.
The independent Citizen Observatory COVID-19 reported that in Nicaragua have dead at least 805 people with symptoms related to coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, an amount higher than the 686 reported by all Central America, including official data from the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health.
According to the Observatory, which enjoys greater prestige than the authorities, only 400 people have died in Managua with signs of the disease. COVID-19, since the pandemic was announced in Nicaragua, last March, until Wednesday May 27.
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Among the people who died in the pandemic were 28 members of the medical staff, including eight members of the nursing staff, 7 doctors, and 6 from the administrative area, 2 medical visitors, 1 laboratory worker, and 4 classified as “others”. , according to the report.
In the last seven days, the number of deaths rose by 70% compared to the same number of previous days, the report by the Citizen Observatory highlighted.
DIFFERENCES TO THE ORTEGA REPORT
The data of the independent report shows a different reality from that admitted by the Government of the President Daniel Ortega, which recognizes 35 deaths due to COVID-19.
The same report indicated that, until two days ago, some 3,725 people from all over Nicaragua had suffered symptoms of COVID-19, which showed an increase of 60% of cases between 20 and 27 of this month.
“SINGULAR” MANAGEMENT
Data from those infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 disease, includes 348 health workers, according to the independent report.
The figures of the Citizen Observatory COVID-19 on infected persons they are superior to the total of 759 affected by the pandemic that the Nicaraguan Government recognizes.
Workers dig graves in a cemetery in Nicaragua. Photo: AFP
The Observatory attributed part of the reasons for the increase in cases and deaths from COVID-19 to at least 105 irregularities, including inadequate responses from the Ministry of Health, and exposures of people in activities or agglomerations.
The way that Ortega It has handled the pandemic, which its own government describes as “unique”, has been criticized, since it refuses to establish restrictions, does not take social prevention measures, and promotes agglomerations, attended only by the Sandinistas, who are then sent to be done house by house.
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Ortega, who minimizes the pandemic, maintains that he must take care that the country’s economy is not affected.
The Organization of American States (OAS), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have expressed their concern about the situation in Nicaragua.
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), have called on Ortega to guarantee the right to health, without success.
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