After processing 14,163 samples to detect the coronavirus in the Dominican Republic, the Ministry of Public Health reported 1,223 new cases of the virus this Thursday.
Health authorities reported that 5,732 people are active with the disease, with an average increase of 994 cases so far this week.
Bulletin 693 maintains that three deaths were reported during the last 24 hours, which accumulates 4,339 deaths since the virus cases began in the country.
According to Public Health, the daily positivity rate stands at 16.85% and the fatality rate at 0.77%.
In addition, it indicates that 7,257 tests were carried out to detect the virus and 6,906 follow-up.
Santo Domingo leads the list of new cases of COVID-19 after registering 239, it is followed by Espaillat with 199, Santiago with 186 and Montecristi with 144.
Currently, there are 249 people occupying the beds in stable conditions, 80 in the intensive care beds and 50 using the ventilators.
Vaccination still slow
This Thursday, the VacúnateRD portal reported that 7,018,134 citizens have received the first dose of the anticovid vaccine; 5,830,645 for the second dose and 2,117,702 for the booster dose.
“I was waiting a reasonable time between the second dose and this one, that’s why I’m vaccinated today,” said citizen Américo Méndez, while being inoculated at the Olympic Center. “She has given me my little flu, but since I’m from the countryside, I fight it with a little tea,” he added.
“If people don’t come, there is no way to ask for the card with the third (dose). They changed the date because they saw that the high percentage only has two and they are going to continue changing it because people have not come massively. As long as the fourth is still optional, I won’t even use it with a machete,” Méndez said jokingly.
According to his supervisor, some 60 people had been inoculated in this position in the morning shift.
