555 people have been tested positive on Curaçao today. A record this year. The rise on the island began on December 21, when 232 people were still in isolation. Now a week later there are 2,338.
There are now 11 patients in the CMC, one less than yesterday. But a patient was added to the intensive care unit. There are now eight patients with corona.
One patient died today in a care home from the effects of the virus. This brings the death toll from Corona to 187.
Aruba
In Aruba, 667 people have been tested positive for Corona today. Also a new record. 87 of them are not from the island. The total number of cases now stands at 2,109, three times as many as on Christmas Day.
The number of patients in the hospital increased from six to eight. In the intensive care unit of Colombia, where there were five patients yesterday, two were discharged today.
Sixty to seventy percent of all people who are positive in Aruba have the Omicron variant, says the Department of Public Health.
Bonaire
Bonaire received 32 new infections today. The Omicron variant has now also been established there, just like on Aruba and Curaçao. This brings the active cases of Covid-19 on Bonaire to 129. That is a sharp increase compared to the last week, when the number of infections actually decreased.
There are six patients in Mariadal hospital because of Covid-19.
—
