There are 17 patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICU) and 141 in the general ward, while 5,543 are at home and 157 in hotels
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In the last hours, 11,945 tests were applied to detect the new SAR-CoV-2 coronavirus.assigned
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The Panamanian authorities reported this Friday of six new cases of the omicron variant, within the framework of a sustained escalation of covid-19 that is evidenced in the increase in daily cases detected and in the positivity of the disease.
Last Monday the Ministry of Health (Minsa) reported the first confirmed case of omicron, a figure that rose this Friday to 9, while another 17 are suspects and are under genomic analysis.
Of the total cases confirmed with the omicron variant, seven are men and two women who reside in the province of Coclé, San Miguelito and Panama Metro (metropolitan area), and all have the complete scheme of the vaccine against covid-19, he said. the Minsa.
“Those infected with this variant have a history of travel to South Africa, Colombia, Spain, the United States, Puerto Rico. There is only one without a history of travel abroad,” explained the governing body of health policy.
The pandemic is accelerating in Panama, a situation that authorities have said they had anticipated given the traditional national holidays last November and those celebrated this month for Christmas and New Years.
The arrival of the omicron variant, detected this week in three people, prompted the authorities to reiterate the call to maintain biosecurity measures and to be vaccinated, as well as to reduce the period for administering the booster dose to those older than 6 to 3 months. 16 years.
For the moment the authorities have ruled out applying measures to restrict the movement of citizens, although they have canceled public holidays for Christmas or the end of the year to avoid crowds.
The health authorities of Panama reported this Friday 865 new cases of covid-19 and three deaths, which brought accumulated infections to 486,377 and 7,409 deaths in the 21 months of the pandemic.
There are 17 patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICU) and 141 in the general ward, while 5,543 are at home and 157 in hotels, the daily report of the Ministry of Health (Minsa) specified.
In the last hours, 11,945 tests were applied to detect the new coronavirus SAR-CoV-2, which causes covid, which yielded a positivity of 7.2%.
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