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He Health Department reported 14 additional deaths on Sunday COVID-19 That increased the total number of deaths from the virus to 1,630 since the start of the pandemic.
The agency detailed that Eight of the deaths occurred in the months of October and December 2020, while six were reported so far in 2021.
New deaths reported:
- 75-year-old woman from the Metro region
- 97-year-old woman from the Metro region
- 74-year-old woman from the Metro region
- 96-year-old woman from the Metro region
- 87-year-old man from the Metro region
- 88-year-old man from the Metro region
- 60-year-old man from the Metro region
- 63-year-old woman from the Metro region
- 35-year-old man from the Bayamón region
- 75-year-old woman from the Fajardo region
- 73-year-old woman from the Fajardo region
- 87-year-old man from the Fajardo region
- 91-year-old male from the Caguas region
- 66-year-old woman from the Caguas region
Meanwhile, Health registered 196 new confirmed positive cases, 152 probable positive cases and 182 presumed positive cases. Therefor, the total of confirmed cases rose to 77,630, while probable cases totaled 5,489 and suspected cases 58,777.
All confirmed cases were corrected after adding 154 cases before December 25, 2020. Similarly, they corrected all probable cases after subtracting 38 cases with a positive molecular test and 25 cases before the date. December 25, 2020.
Salud also adjusted the total number of suspected cases after subtracting 62 cases with a positive molecular test and then 10 cases with a positive probable test. Likewise, they added 523 cases before the December 25, 2020 date.
On the other hand, the number of patients hospitalized because of the virus was placed at 402, of which 65 are in an intensive care unit and 71 are connected to a ventilator. Two minors are also intensive. To date, the country’s hospitals have 241 intensive care beds and 794 adult ventilation equipment available.
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.