Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Honduras reached 160,000 covid-19 infections on Saturday, while deaths from the disease have already totaled 3,857 in 11 months of the pandemic, according to the daily records of the national risk management system (Sinager).
The agency said in a statement that out of 2,327 new laboratory tests, 764 were positive, bringing the number dInfections increased to 159,788.
Nine deaths in the last hours make a total of 3,857 since the pandemic began to spread in Central American country, in March 2020.
The official report adds that 998 Hondurans are hospitalized because they contracted the disease, of which 599 suffered a stable clinical picture, 345 are seriously ill and 54 remain in intensive care units.
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In addition, according to the health entity, 17 new patients have recovered, with which there are already 63,170 patients cured.
Cortés Departments, in the north of the country and Francisco Morazán, in the center, where The Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, is located, and they are still the main epicenters of the pandemic, which in January and February had a high incidence of infections and deaths.
Medical sources at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic say that the Sinager figures are short and that the death toll could amount to 10,000, an opinion that coincides with that of the directors Honduran Funeral Association.
Given the high incidence of covid-19 infections and deaths so far this year, College of Microbiologists of Honduras He recommended today to the health authorities a total closure for two weekends.
“We have made a proposal that at least two weekends be closed all over the country, if you can’t go by ID number,” the spokesman said. microbiologists, Miriam Aguilera.
He added that immediate action should be taken and that there were no meetings of any kind.
In addition, according to microbiologists, there needs to be a larger budget to deal with the pandemic and open more care centers, as the positivity of infections and deaths is high.