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Puerto Rico dawned today, Thursday, with 99 people in intensive care and 100 connected to an artificial respirator due to COVID-19, according to the Department of Health board.
Patients are part of the total of 602 people who are currently hospitalized for coronavirus. To date, the island’s hospitals have 201 intensive care beds and 816 respirators available.
On the other hand, Health reported 11 new deaths that raised the total number of deaths to 1,323. The deaths reported today occurred between October 3 and December 14. The reported deaths were broken down into nine confirmed and two probable.
New deaths confirmed:
– 76-year-old woman from the Fajardo region
– 86-year-old man from the Caguas region
– 77-year-old woman from the Bayamón region
– 82-year-old woman from the Bayamón region
– 77-year-old man from the Bayamón region
– 64-year-old man from the Bayamón region
– 88-year-old man from the Metro region
– 54-year-old man from the Metro region
– 73-year-old woman from the Ponce region
New probable deaths:
– 46-year-old man from the Mayagüez region
– 61-year-old woman from the Fajardo region
“The change in the number of failures should not be interpreted as having occurred in the last 24 hours. Likewise, it is important to point out that the reporting of deaths may vary, insofar as the processes of registration and coding of the causes of death occur, which could take several days “, the agency quotes in a statement press.
At the time, the agency reported 849 new confirmed positive cases, 147 probable and 545 suspected new coronavirus on the island, all with samples taken between 1 and 15 December.
Detailed health that the total number of confirmed cases is 60,792 after being adjusted after adding 159 cases that had a sampling from 16 to 30 November. Likewise, the total probable cases were adjusted by subtracting 75 that you had a positive molecular test. At the same time, an antigen test result was added that tested positive and was taken on November 12.
In addition, the number of suspicious infections was also adjusted after restoring 109 cases that presented a positive molecular test and four with a positive antigen test. On the other hand, 110 positive results were added to the line of suspicious cases after having been reported and whose samples are from 2 to 30 November.
Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced previously reported that she had asked the Department of Health to report the number of people who were vaccinated against COVID-19, but that information is not yet provided in the agency’s daily report. Today is the third day of the SARS-CoV-2 virus immunization process in Puerto Rico.
According to the dependency, the confirmed positive case term refers to contagions whose result was validated by a PCR (molecular) test. The probable case is that positive result in the disease obtained by antigen testing. Meanwhile, suspicious cases, also known as antibody results, are those that tested positive in the serological test, and do not have a positive molecular or antigen test.
In addition, the agency explained a death confirmed by COVID-19 corresponds to the death of a person with one or more tests based on molecular positives. The probable death is that death of a patient who was diagnosed with COVID-19 by an antigen test or whose clinical picture meets the criteria for believing that he had COVID-19, but has never been shown. a molecular or antigen test to detect the virus. Meanwhile, suspicious death refers to the failure of a person in whom a specific antibody is detected in his, plasma or by a serological test with his blood.
Confirmed positive cases (molecular test)
A total of 61,783 confirmed positive cases correspond to 33,257 women and 28,526 men. The group of patients between the ages of 20 and 29 dominates with the mayor number of infections (11,008), followed by 30 to 39 years (10,377) and 40 to 49 years (10,288).
The metropolitan region is the most confirmed positive cases with a total of 18,812, followed by the region of Bayamón (13,558) and Caguas (8,512). However, the agency has 285 confirmed cases for which it has not been able to identify the region.
San Juan remains the municipality with the most confirmed content with 9,661 cases, followed by Bayamón (4,752) and Carolina (4,167). Salud does not yet have the municipality of 1,768 confirmed cases available.
Probable positive cases (antigen test)
The total of 2,968 positive cases in antigen testing are divided between 1,676 corresponding to women and 1,292 to men. In this category the group of patients between 40 and 49 years old records the mayor number of probable infected with 453, followed by the group of 20 to 29 years with 438 and the one of 50 to 59 years with 430.
The Bayamón region dominates the statistics with 695 probable infected, followed by the Caguas region (601) and the Metro (445). However, Health has 96 probable cases for those who have not been able to identify the region.
At the municipal level, Bayamón has the largest number of probable cases with (292), followed by San Juan (193) and Caguas (171). The agency does not have available the village of 89 probable cases.
Suspicious positive cases (serological test)
The total of 48,083 probable positive cases are divided between 26,998 corresponding to women and 21,085 to men. In this category the group of patients between 20 and 29 years also registers the mayor number of probable infected with 8,317, followed by the group of 40 to 49 years with 7,540 and the one of 50 to 59 years with 7,311.
The metropolitan region dominates the statistics with 11,415 suspected infected, followed by the Bayamón region (10,317) and the Caguas region (6,104). However, it has 1,537 suspicious cases for which it has not been able to identify the region.
San Juan is also the mayor with suspicious cases (5,880), followed by Bayamón (3,277) and Carolina (2,385). The agency does not have the village of 1,105 suspicious cases available.