78 new covid19 cases recorded

Image courtesy CDC.
Image courtesy CDC.

THE Ministry of Health, in its Friday morning covid19 update, said 78 new cases have been recorded and were from samples for the period September 4-17. There are 1,866 active cases and the number of deaths is unchanged at 60.

Eight more people have been sent home, taking the figure to 822. The number of recovered community cases is 764. The ministry said there are 1,590 people currently home-isolated under monitoring by the county medical officer of health offices.

There are 78 covid19 patients in hospital. At Couva there are 49 patients, three of whom are in ICU and three in High Dependency Units; at Caura Hospital there are 25; and at Arima General Hospital there are four.

There are 131 covid19 patients at step-down/transition facilities: 72 at Freedom Hall,UWI; 52 at Canada Hall, UWI; and seven at UWI Debe Campus.

The number of samples submitted to CARPHA, UWI and other local sites was 28,493. The number of unique patient tests completed is 25,430 and there have been 3,063 repeated tests. The number of samples that have tested positive is 3,512.

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