Panama, October 10 Panama added 667 new cases of covid-19 and 3 deaths from disease from October 2 to 8, which brought confirmed infections to 988,280 and 8,505 from March 2020, the Ministry of Health (Minsa) reported Monday. .
In its weekly report, the health care portfolio specified that until last October 8, a total of 4 patients were hospitalized for coronavirus in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) and 68 in the ward, while 800 were isolated at home.
The patients who managed to heal were 978,903 until 8 October, since the first case of infection in Panama occurred on 9 March 2020.
Between 2 and 8 October 20,709 tests were applied to detect cases of covid, which produced an overall positive percentage of 3.1%.
Regarding the vaccination process, official data show that 8,641,446 doses of the vaccine against covid-19 have been applied since January 20, 2021, the vast majority from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
Children between the ages of 5 and 11 received 472,203 pediatric doses, according to Minsa.
On Monday, vaccination against covid-19 for children between 6 months and 4 years of age began in Panama, after the arrival in the country of 150,000 doses of the Pfizer preparation. EFE
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