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Puerto Rico - COVID-19 cases - 34,533 cases; 477 fatalities
Puerto Rico Lags Behind Everywhere Else in U.S. in Virus Testing
A strict lockdown has required much sacrifice from Puerto Ricans, whose patience with the slow pace of testing is running out.
By Patricia Mazzei
April 21, 2020
Updated 4:37 p.m. ET
Hobbled by government scandal and dysfunction at the start of the pandemic, Puerto Rico has done tests to diagnose the coronavirus at a far lower rate than anywhere else in the United States, a situation that public health experts fear could leave the island uniquely vulnerable once it attempts to reopen.
Puerto Rico has performed an average of 15 coronavirus tests a day for every 100,000 people, according to the Covid Tracking Project, a rate lower than any state and a tenth of the testing rate in New York.
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The island was one of the first places to order a serious lockdown, shutting down the economy, closing beaches and imposing a nighttime curfew in mid-March. It has seen more than 900 cases of the coronavirus so far, and 64 people have died. Not all of them were tested.
... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/u...ronavirus.html
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Coronavirus: Puerto Rico adjusts COVID-19 infections downwards
43 minutes ago
The Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico , Lorenzo Gonz?lez, has corrected this Tuesday the number of positive cases for the new coronavirus on the island, from 1,298 that had been reported early in the day to 915.
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