Today’s Department of Health report reported 18 deaths from COVID-19; meanwhile, 205 confirmed cases, 100 probable cases and 101 additional suspicious cases were recorded.
Confirmed cases are determined in this way by having taken the sample with molecular test, the probable ones are taken with antigen test and the suspects with a rapid or serological test.
The 18 new deaths identified by Health were broken down as follows:
Five men aged 50, 63, 71, 78, 85 and 88, as well as an 88-year-old woman from the Metro region.
A 74-year-old woman from the Aguadilla region.
A 74-year-old man from the Arecibo region.
A woman of 34 years and four men of 70 years, 71 years, 76 years, 82 years respectively of the region of Caguas
An 80-year-old woman from Ponce.
A 70-year-old man from Fajardo
An 89-year-old man from the Bayamón region.
According to Health, these deaths correspond, four of them in October, one in November, seven in December and six in January.
Puerto Rico thus brings 74,967 confirmed confirmed cases and 1,588 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
To the total sum of confirmed, probable and suspicious cases, women have had a total of 75,206 confirmed cases and men 62,173.
The number of hospitalized fell to 411, 69 of them in intensive care units and three fewer in pediatric intensive care units.
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