Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The government of Honduras has reported through the National Risk Management System, Sinager, in recent hours on 669 new cases positive of it COVID-19 in the country. The trend of positivity is heading towards alarming numbers and is worrying the Honduran population.
Health and emergency authorities in the face of the pandemic indicated that 2,083 tests of diagnosis, and while it does not represent 50% of positivity, it is actually a significant increase in the number of daily positivity.
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In Sinager’s latest reports of the number of positive cases and deaths from covid, the increase is significant compared to 2020The deaths are in the country’s 18 departments and the national health system is on the verge of collapse.
Cuts Y Francisco Morazán they remain the units with the highest incidence; both accumulate nearly 60% of rural cases. The towns, especially in the Sula Valley, represent the sites of rampant circulation in the streets without taking biosecurity measures by the citizens.
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Meanwhile, positivity in the interior departments is diminishing, partly due to the fact that they have fewer inhabitants. None of these exceed 6%, but the increase worries authorities, the population and the health workers’ union, because in these regions of the country, some very remote, there are no triage centers or hospitals able to respond to the incessant demand from disease patients.
In addition to the biosecurity measures promoted by the country’s authorities, media, organizations and municipal campaigns, such as the use of face masks, antibacterial gel and social distance, the individual detection of symptoms is added to protect those who have not been infected.
Honduras, have since been declared Central government, awaits the arrival of the first batches of the AstraZeneca anticovid vaccine at the end of February, through the initiative COVAX, which aims to ensure that the drug also reaches underdeveloped countries and countries in economic crisis.
In addition to the pandemic’s attack on the national economy, the plague of tropical storms was added And e IotaThe destruction caused by these phenomena has left thousands of Honduran families in ruins, destroyed businesses and deterred foreign investors, causing unemployment in the country to rise dramatically.