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Tegucigalpa, Apr 18 (EFE) .- Honduras reached 200,935 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus this Sunday and 4,957 deaths from the covid-19 disease, reported the state National Risk Management System (Sinager).
Of 2,101 new PCR tests processed by the National Virology Laboratory, 676 were positive, the health agency indicated in its daily bulletin.
Of those infected, 1,170 are hospitalized, of them 595 are in stable condition, 514 serious and 61 in intensive care units, added the Sinager.
The number of deaths increased by three cases in the last hours and the fatality rate stands at 2.7%, said the health entity, which today added 104 new recovered patients, with which there are already 76,339 who have been saved from die from covid-19.
The departments of Cortés, in the north, and Francisco Morazán, in the center, are the regions most affected by the pandemic, with 57,130 and 56,381 infections, respectively.
The first two cases of contagion with covid-19 in Honduras were registered on March 11, 2020, in two Honduran women who entered through Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, from Spain and Switzerland.
RUSSIAN VACCINE IS 91% EFFECTIVE
A total of 3,000 first-line health workers will be inoculated with the first 6,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine that Honduras received on Friday, out of 4.2 million bought by the country from Russia, a preparation that has an efficacy of 91.6% said the head of the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI) of the Ministry of Health, Berenice Molina.
Health personnel from the Metropolitan Region of San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa and Olancho, north, center and east of the country, will receive the first doses of the pink vaccine, the official said, according to a statement from the Honduran Presidency.
“Our priority groups are health workers, the elderly and essential workers to keep the State running in the development of the country’s economy,” he explained.
Molina indicated that Honduras has so far received 59,000 doses of vaccines against the coronavirus, of which 48,000 from AstraZeneca were donated to the country by the Covax mechanism, promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO), 5,000 from Moderna given by Israel and the 6,000 of Sputnik V, bought from Russia.
Honduras agreed last March with Russia to purchase 4.2 million doses of Sputnik V, at a cost of less than $ 10 each, enough to vaccinate 2.1 million people. EFE
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