Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The death toll in Honduras from Covid-19 rose to 3,486 this Tuesday and that from infections to 142,880, according to the state’s daily report. National risk management system (Sinager).
The high number of deaths and infections continues to rise in the Central American country, which registered 24 new deaths today, the Sinager said in a statement.
In addition, 896 of the 3,125 PCR tests processed by the National Virology Laboratory tested positive for the deadly disease.
The health agency added to its file 1,161 hospitalized Hondurans who contracted covid-19, of which 757 have a stable clinical picture, 360 serious and 44 in intensive care units.
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According to the official report, 120 new patients have recovered, of which 60,597 are already.
The Covid-19 pandemic began to spread in March 2019, when the first infections were confirmed, ending that month with at least ten deaths.
Given the high incidence of the pandemic between December and January, the multisectoral round table on the deadly disease does not rule out the reinforcement of measures for the movement of people, the general coordinator of the government cabinet, Carlos Madero, said today.
At the multisectoral table, according to the senior official, they discuss how to balance the country’s weak economy and the pandemic, which has ruined many. micro, small and medium enterprises.
Madero emphasized that the pandemic continues to lead to more deaths and daily infections, and that if the population does not strictly adhere to recommended sanitary measures, the circulation of people would again decrease, worsening the situation of the country’s armed forces.
Doctors at the forefront of the pandemic in public hospitals, as well as authorities from the Department of Health, have warned in recent days that hospitals could collapse with so many cases of the deadly disease being recorded.
According to official sources, the first doses of vaccine against covid-19, which would be at the forefront of the pandemic for all health personnel, would arrive in March via the Covax mechanism promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO).