Deaths from covid-19 in Honduras rise to 3,173 and infections to 123,144

Tegucigalpa, Jan 2 (EFE) .- The death toll in Honduras from covid-19 increased this Saturday to 3,173, while the number of infections to 123,144, reported the state National Risk Management System (Sinager).
Of 619 PCR tests processed by the National Virology Laboratory, 170 were positive, which already adds up to 123,144 cases of infected people, the agency said in a statement, which also registered 13 new deaths that “correspond to several days.”
In the first two days of 2021, the Sinager has registered 32 deaths and 381 infections.
In its report today, the health agency noted that another 712 people remain hospitalized due to the deadly disease, of which 553 have a stable condition, 126 are seriously ill and 33 are in intensive care units.
There are 412 recovered patients, with which there are already 57,348 people who have been saved from dying from the same disease, according to the Sinager, which on Friday and Saturday has processed less than 1,000 PCR tests daily.
According to medical sources who are at the forefront of the health crisis in public hospitals, the National Virology Laboratory needs to process at least 3,000 PCR tests every day to have greater clarity about the magnitude of the pandemic.
After the pandemic began to spread, in March 2020, the health authorities promised that 3,000 tests would be processed daily, for which they would have the collaboration of private laboratories, but so far that figure has not been reached. in one day.
According to the Ministry of Health, the first vaccines against covid-19 would be arriving in Honduras in March, although many Hondurans do not believe due to the failure to comply with other official offers, such as the installation of seven mobile hospitals that were purchased between March and April 2020. in Turkey.
Of the seven hospitals, in a purchase that was around 48 million dollars and in which there was corruption, according to complaints from organizations such as the National Anticorruption Council, only one is operating, in San Pedro Sula, in the north of the country.
The first three hospitals arrived in July, while the remaining four between October and November, without it being known until now what the precise reasons are why they are not all working. EFE

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