Panama City, June 22. The Ministry of Health of Panama (Minsa) reported this Wednesday of 1,957 new cases of covid-19 and no deaths from the disease, but updates 3 from a previous date, to reach a cumulative total of 908,392 confirmed infections and 8,332 deaths in more two years of pandemic.
The Minsa report indicates that there are 34 patients admitted to the Intensive Care Units (ICU) and 197 in the ward, while 15,637 are isolated at home and 19 in hotels, for a global of 15,887 active cases.
The patients who have healed account for 884,173 since March 9, 2020, when the first case of contagion occurred in Panama, where covid has a fatality rate of 0.9%, which remains one of the lowest in the Latin American region. .
On this day, 10,470 tests were applied to detect cases of covid, which showed a positivity of 18.7%. Panama has 6,502,791 tests applied to date.
With regard to the progress of the vaccination process, the report of the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI) of the Ministry of Health shows that since January 20, 2021, 8,361,377 doses of vaccine against covid-19 have been administered in the Central American country. 19, mostly from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
Immunization coverage in the population older than 5 years is at least 87.7% with the first dose; 78.5% with second dose; and 51.5% with the first dose in the segment of 16 years and older.
Children between 5 and 11 years of age have received 434,687 pediatric doses, of which 280,175 have been the first dose for a coverage of 87.7%, according to the Minsa.
Panama is facing a fifth wave of infections and a slight increase in hospitalizations due to the disease, for which the Ministry of Health has reinforced the immunization strategy in companies, in institutions and with the so-called “Vaccination in Your Neighborhood”. EFE
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