This content was published on 26 January 2021 – 05:14
Tegucigalpa, Jan 25 (EFE) .- The death toll from covid-19 in Honduras rose to 3,462 this Monday, while the infections to 141,984, reported the state National Risk Management System (Sinager).
In its daily report, the health agency registered 15 new cases of deaths from covid-19, with which there are already 3,462 since the pandemic began to spread in the country, in March 2020.
In addition, of 3,838 new PCR tests processed by the National Virology Laboratory, 1,055 were positive, for a total of 141,984 in more than ten months of the pandemic.
There are 1,096 Hondurans who are hospitalized due to the deadly disease, of which 695 remain in stable condition, 355 are seriously ill and 46 are in intensive care units.
With regard to new recovered patients, the Sinager indicated that eight cases were added today, with which there are already 60,477 who have been saved from dying from covid-19.
Covid-19 cases have skyrocketed in December and January in the Central American country to the same levels that were recorded in the most critical months of the pandemic, in June and July 2020, according to medical sources from public hospitals.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández said today that the virus of the disease “continues to hit humanity” and “has taken a heavy toll, both in human lives and in the destruction of world economies.”
He added that Hondurans must understand, “once and for all, that covid-19 is here to stay,” according to studies by specialists from around the world.
“This is the new reality to which we have to adapt, we have to learn to live with the virus and the best way to do it is by taking care of ourselves, following basic biosafety measures,” stressed the governor, who is one of the patients who, In July 2020, he recovered from the disease.
Among the people who died in Honduras from covid-19 are at least 60 doctors and a smaller number of nurses and health aides.
According to Hernández, the first batch of vaccines against covid-19 will arrive in March, and medical personnel will be the first to be immunized, because they are the ones at the forefront of the pandemic. EFE
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