San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
Another doctor died this Sunday in San Pedro Sula, in northern Honduras, suspected of Covid-19, once he mourned medical guild.
Carlos Umaña, president of the Medical Association of the Honduran Institute of Social Security (IHSS), reported the unfortunate news through social networks.
The medical professional Wendy Nuñez was internally in IHSS from the industrial capital of the country.
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“Our condolences to his family and the entire union,” Umaña posted on Twitter.
Catholic University of Honduras (Unicah) issued a note of mourning for the death of the Honduran who also served as director Yes Professor from Faculty of Medicine and Surgery.
Yesterday, doctors held a sit-in in several cities across the country to demand that all health care workers receive personal protective equipment urgently to prevent further infections in the country. covid-19; Well, today, the virus has taken the lives of over a hundred professionals Hondurians in this branch.
Honduras has more than 3,000 deaths due to Covid-19
Honduras overtook this Saturday 3,700 deaths due to covid-19 and infections approached 154,000 in March last year, when the first two cases were reported in the Central American country, the National Risk Management System (Sinager) reported.
In his daily report, Sinager indicated that at the national level there were 16 new deaths due to the cause SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, with which the number increased by 3,710.
In addition to 2015 PCR tests Laboratory tests, 652 gave positive results, increasing the number of patients to 153,905 in March, when the pandemic began to spread.
Most of the new infections correspond to residents of the department Cuts, in the north of the country and in the Honduran region most affected by disease.