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More Positive Cases Coming Out Tonight
posted (August 14, 2020)
And finally on the COVID numbers….we gave you a breakdown of what they are earlier, and today, the DHS and his team said they bracing for that total number of confirmed cases to increase by tomorrow. 300 tests are currently in the system, and his preliminary report from today indicates that another 10 people tested positive from a batch of 78 samples:

Dr. Marvin Manzanero - Director of Health Services
"The preliminary data we have today, the first batch of samples have come out, it is 10 out of 78 samples, 10 positives that we have so far. There is another batch that is currently being processed. Out of these 10 samples 8 are from Orange Walk and 2 are from Corozal. Out of those 10, 8 of those would have a link to previously established cases and two would not seem to have any link to any case as far as we have been able to ascertain with today's data. The other note we have in terms of, which is a little bit of a concern and I think it is going to be a growing concern as we move along is in terms of health care workers. Yesterday we had one nurse and one other person from Karl Heusner who has turned out to be positive so that is a total now of 16 persons that are positive, 8 of those within private sector, 2 of those are from Karl Heusner and 6 of those are from private sector for now one of those persons seems to have had direct link to flu cases within the public setting and the other persons would not have been working at the flu clinic which is the high exposure area but that is preliminary investigations that are still ongoing as to how that potential infection process went."

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