Santo Domingo.-Pandemic. The Ministry of Public Health reported that after processing 10,627 samples, 1,014 positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 were detected, which is the highest number in the last four months.
Ronald Skewes, director of Epidemiology, explained that the indicators and behavior of the incidence of COVID-19 continue to decline compared to the last two weeks. While the daily positivity is at 22.11 and 12.81% those of the last four weeks.
He indicated that the country is in a much better position in the behavior of the disease compared to other nations such as Israel, which have more economic resources to face COVID. “We are almost returning to the indicators of the usual values of the virus.”
The epidemiologist reported that no new variants were identified in the last two weeks.
coronavirus details
— Circulating variant
Ómicron’s subvariant BA.2 continues to circulate in some provinces of the country, such as the National District, Greater Santo Domingo, Santiago and Barahona. In addition, hospital occupancy continues below 10%.
