With a daily positivity of 22.92%, the cases of covid-19 They continue to increase in the country after the circulation of the Omicrom XBB.1 subvariant, which has increased the number of infections of the disease in recent days.
Last weekend, the Ministry of Public health reported 310 new infections of the disease, after processing 2,864 tests. On Saturday there were 128 cases and on Sunday 182.
Until the last epidemiological bulletin of Public Health, in the Dominican Republic there were 1,744 active cases of the disease and a cumulative of 651,671.
Notwithstanding this, although the cases have been increasing, patients do not reach hospitals for their care, so hospital occupancy remains low.
Currently, there are 46 occupied covid-19 beds out of 2,373; 7 ICU beds occupied out of 585, while the fans are not in use.
Specialist warns there is underreporting of infections because patients do not get tested
The former president of the Dominican Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery, Dr. Evangelina Soler, warned of the increase in the spread of the coronavirus, to such an extent that her office is crowded with covid patients.
Soler drew attention to the confusion that has been generated with people who, both at home and in the offices, are feeling symptoms of the disease and believe that it is a flu process due to the change in temperature, and do not come after the third day to perform a test to rule out or confirm if you have said condition.
