Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Honduras added this Saturday 577 new cases of covid-19 and 20 deaths, reported the state National Risk Management System (Sinager), which warned about the increase in infections of the disease.
Since the health emergency was declared in March 2020, the Central American country has registered 200,259 positive cases of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 accumulates 4,954 deaths from the virus, the Sinager reported in its daily bulletin.
The National Virology Laboratory applied 2,933 PCR tests in the last few hours, of which 577 were positive, he added.
Those hospitalized total 1,163, with 598 in stable condition, 501 serious and 61 in the intensive care units (ICU), the health agency said.
As for those recovered, no cases were reported today, so the number of people saved from dying from the disease, which began to expand more than a year ago in Honduras, remains at 76,235. , a country of 9.3 million people, of whom more than 60% are poor.
the departments of Francisco Morazán, In the center, where Tegucigalpa is located, the capital, and Cortés, in the north of the country, remain the most affected by the pandemic.
The Honduran body warned again today about the increase in cases of covid-19, while authorities in different hospitals have announced that they have no quota for more patients.
So far, a total of 2,684 Hondurans have already received the second dose of the Modern vaccine, with a batch of 5,000 doses given in February by Israel, while 48,000 people were inoculated with the first dose of AstraZeneca, given to the country under the COVAX mechanism promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The first batch of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V arrived in Honduras on Friday, with a load of 6,000 doses, as part of the contract that the Honduran government established with Russia for 4.2 million of the preparation.
The first two cases of coronavirus in Honduras were reported on March 11, two Honduran women who arrived in the country from Spain and Switzerland.