During the epidemiological week No. 13 corresponding from Sunday, March 26 to Saturday, April 1, 949 new positive cases of Covid-19 were confirmed, with which, according to the Department of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), the figure rises to 1,034,730 the total number of positive cases since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 until Saturday, April 1, 2023.
For the second consecutive epidemiological week, no deaths were registered and deaths throughout the country remained at 8,612, from the start of the pandemic in March 2020 to April 1, 2023; That is why MINSA emphasizes that prevention and vaccination are the most efficient weapons to continue counteracting the spread of this disease.
A total of 15,372 tests were carried out during week No.13 and the percentage of weekly positivity is 6.2%.
In home isolation, 780 people were registered and 57 people hospitalized (of which 57 were in the wards and 0 in the ICU) with a total of cases (in home isolation and hospitalized) to date of 837 active cases.
The total number of recovered, during week No. 13, was 1,093 patients, raising the total number of recovered, since the start of the pandemic, by 1,025,167.
The five corregimientos with the most confirmed cases during the entire epidemiological week No. 13 are: David with 39 cases; Juan Diaz (Panama) with 38 cases; Los Algarrobos (Chiriqui) with 30 cases; Rufina Alfaro with 25 cases and Bella Vista (Panama) with 22 cases.
For its part, the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI) highlights that, from January 21, 2021 to date, 8 million 865 thousand 783 doses have been applied. Of which, 3 million 531 thousand 551 are first doses; 3 million 173 thousand 253 are second doses; 1 million 756 thousand 956 are first reinforcement and 258 thousand 710 are second dose of reinforcements.
At the last weekly cut, 125,740 doses of the bivalent vaccine have been inoculated throughout the country to people over 12 years of age and 2,083 doses to children from 5 to 11 years of age; with a total of 127 thousand 823 doses of bivalent applied from 5 years onwards, throughout the country.
