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One Week, 170 Tests, None Positive For COVID-19
posted (April 20, 2020)
7 days - that's how long Belize has gone without a new positive test for COVID-19. About 170 tests have been done in that time and all of them were negative.

Statistics released this afternoon from the Ministry of Health show that 772 tests have been done, 754 of them were negative, leaving 18 positive, broken down into 9 men and 9 women. That's the same number as a week ago on Easter Monday. They are all recovering or stable, and none of them are in the isolation unit or on a ventilator.

Still, officially, zero persons have been classified as recovered.

Of course, there have been those two deaths. Belize and Nicaragua - both with two deaths - have the lowest COVID-19 death toll in Central America.

Here in Belize, 66 cases people remain under investigation.

The greatest number of tests have been done in the Belize District with 373 performed, and only 8 positive. Cayo district has had 208 tests performed with 6 positive results. The only other district with a positive results is Corozal with 75 tests, four of them positive.

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