In the last 24 hours, only 39 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the country. COVID-19 and no deceased, according to this Sunday’s bulletin from the Ministry of Public Health, so that since last the 15th of this month no deaths from this virus have been reported.
The report on the 15th gave accounts of one death, also after a full week without lives lost to the disease.
In addition to the new infected (39), detected in 2,293 tests carried out, this Sunday’s bulletin indicates that there are 251 people with the active virus, of the 577,880 positives that have been detected throughout the pandemic in the country.
The daily positivity is located at 2.94% and the accumulated one continues at 1.12 percent.
Of the 2,293 samples taken, 1,328 were taken from people for the first time and the remaining 965 were subsequent. A total of 1,403 corresponded to PCR and 890 to antigens.
Of those infected in the last 24 hours, nearly 60 percent are from The Altagraciaa province that in recent days has presented significant percentages of cases.
hospital occupancy
Hospital occupancy, according to bulletin 738, is 5 percent, with 121 beds in use of the total 2,373 available for patients COVID-19.
In intensive care areas it is located at 4%, with 25 seriously ill patients. the beds available in the ICU are 585. The patients currently using ventilators are 23 and of these teams there are 469 for the infected with coronavirus.