San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
Another doctor died this Sunday in San Pedro Sula, northern Honduras on suspicion of Covid-19, once in mourning medical guild.
Carlos Umaña, President of the Medical Association of the Honduran Social Security Institute (IHSS), reported the unfortunate news via social networks.
The medical professional Wendy Nuñez was internal in the IHSS from the industrial capital of the country.
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“Our condolences to his family and to the whole union,” Umaña posted on Twitter.
The Catholic University of Honduras (Unicah) issued a letter of mourning for the death of the Honduran that also served as director Y professor from Faculty of Medicine and Surgery.
Yesterday, the doctors held a sit-in in several cities around the country to demand that all health workers be given urgent personal protective equipment to prevent further infections. COVID-19; At present, the virus has claimed the lives of more than a hundred professionals Hondurans in this Branche.
Honduras has more than 3,000 deaths from Covid-19
Honduras surpassed the 3,700 deaths from Covid-19 and infections are close to 154,000 since last March, when the first two cases were reported in the Central American country, the state’s National Risk Management System (Sinager) reported.
In its daily report, the Sinager indicated that there are 16 new deaths from humans nationally coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, with which the number rose to 3,710.
In addition to 2015 PCR tests Laboratory tests, 652 tested positive, bringing the number of patients to 153,905 since March, when the pandemic started to spread.
Most of the new infections correspond to residents of the ward Cuts, in the north of the country and the Honduran region most affected by the disease.