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The Health Department reported this morning that it added 24 deaths to its data on COVID-19 in Puerto Rico, bringing the total to 1,616.
However, the agency clarified that seven of those deaths have been recorded in January so far and the remaining 17 were reported last year but not reported. The period of deaths reported today runs from October 25 to January 8.
New deaths reported:
– 83-year-old male from the Metro region
– 42-year-old male from the Metro region
– 67-year-old man from the Metro region
– 72-year-old man from the Metro region
– 73-year-old man from the Metro region
– 70-year-old man from the Metro region
– 69-year-old male from the Metro region
– 88-year-old woman from the Metro region
– 88-year-old woman from the Metro region
– 87-year-old male from the Metro region
– 88-year-old woman from the Metro region
– 42-year-old male from the Metro region
– 48-year-old man from the Metro region
– 63-year-old male from the Ponce region
– 81-year-old man from the Bayamón region
– 84-year-old male from the Bayamón region
– 61-year-old male from Bayamón region
– 73-year-old man from the Bayamón region
– 72-year-old woman from the Arecibo region
– 56-year-old male from the Fajardo region
– 76-year-old male from the Caguas region
– 75-year-old woman from the Caguas region
– 73-year-old male from the Caguas region
– 78-year-old woman from the Mayagüez region
On the other hand, the portal of the agency shows that the total number of confirmed positive cases for the virus rose to 77,280 after adding 479 recent results.
Meanwhile, the probable cases are now 5,350 with 78 new results and 58,144 suspects with a total of 454 new results.
“The number of additional confirmed cases since the last report does not mean that these cases match the last 24 hours. Total includes cases with samples taken from December 24, 2020 to January 7, 2021″ Detailed Salud.
The agency reported that the total of confirmed cases was adjusted to add 89 cases before the date of December 24, 2020. In addition, 14 double cases were deducted.
The total number of probable cases was also adjusted to subtract 68 cases with a positive molecular test. The agency also deducted a double contamination.
Meanwhile, the total number of suspected positive cases was adjusted by subtracting 78 cases with a positive molecular test and one (1) case with a positive antigen test. Likewise, four (4) cases were added before the date of December 24, 2020 and three (3) duplicate cases were subtracted.
The agency has not updated the number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 in Puerto Rico.
Meanwhile, the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 has risen to 420, of which 75 are in an intensive care unit and 76 are connected to a ventilator.
Now there are two pediatric patients who remain in intensive care. One of them is connected to a ventilator.
To date, the country’s hospitals have 228 intensive care beds and 821 adult respirators.
According to the agency, the term confirmed positive case refers to infections whose result has been validated by a PCR (molecular) test. The likely case is one whose disease positive result was obtained by antigen testing. Meanwhile, suspected cases, also known as antibody results, are those that have a positive serological test and no positive molecular or antigen test.
In addition, the agency stated that a death confirmed by COVID-19 equates to a person’s death with one or more positive molecular tests. Probable death is the death of a patient who was diagnosed with COVID-19 through an antigen test or whose clinical picture meets the criteria to believe he had COVID-19 but never had a molecular or antigen test to detect it virus. Suspicious death, meanwhile, refers to the death of a person in which a specific antibody is detected in serum, plasma, or through a serological test using their blood.
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