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A new death increases the deaths of COVID-19 to 17 in El Salvador
EFE - San Salvador
05/09/2020 - 22: 18h
El Salvador has 17 deaths, 784 infections and more than 39,000 tests have been carried out to detect the COVID-19 virus, according to official information revealed this Saturday. EFE
El Salvador registered a new death on Saturday due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (causing the COVID-19 disease), bringing the death of this disease to 17, an official source reported.
"I deeply regret the seventeenth person who died from COVID-19," published the head of the Ministry of Health, Francisco Alab?, on his social networks.
According to the official, the seventeenth person who died was a health professional "in charge of a pharmacy for the health unit, 38 years old and diabetic."
Alab? expressed his condolences to the family and "all our staff" and added that "the country has had a great loss."
El Salvador has 784 infections and more than 39,000 tests have been carried out to detect the virus, according to official information revealed this Saturday.
According to data from the Interdisciplinary Epidemiological Containment Team (EICE), on Friday alone 1,773 tests were applied, of which 1,731 were negative and 42 positive, bringing the number of COVID-19 infections to 784, while deaths remained at 17.
In total, 39,079 'Polymerase Chain Reaction' (PCR) tests have been carried out throughout the Salvadoran territory - where the virus has already spread - all with 99.99% accuracy, according to the information.
The department of San Salvador is the epicenter of new coronavirus infections with 344 cases, followed by La Libertad (center) and Santa Ana (northwest) with 64 and 49, respectively.
On Thursday, El Salvador's security authorities imposed a "strict" and "rigid" quarantine throughout the Central American country to try to curb infections and prevent the collapse of its health system, according to the government.
This quarantine was installed the same day that a law passed by the Legislative Assembly came into force, authorizing the Executive to detain and confine in "containment centers" those persons who allegedly violate domiciliary quarantine.
The head of the Salvadoran Government Cabinet, Carolina Recinos, warned at a press conference that it will be a "rigid, disciplined and" absolute "quarantine until May 21.
A new death increases the deaths of COVID-19 to 17 in El Salvador
EFE - San Salvador
05/09/2020 - 22: 18h
El Salvador has 17 deaths, 784 infections and more than 39,000 tests have been carried out to detect the COVID-19 virus, according to official information revealed this Saturday. EFE
El Salvador registered a new death on Saturday due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (causing the COVID-19 disease), bringing the death of this disease to 17, an official source reported.
"I deeply regret the seventeenth person who died from COVID-19," published the head of the Ministry of Health, Francisco Alab?, on his social networks.
According to the official, the seventeenth person who died was a health professional "in charge of a pharmacy for the health unit, 38 years old and diabetic."
Alab? expressed his condolences to the family and "all our staff" and added that "the country has had a great loss."
El Salvador has 784 infections and more than 39,000 tests have been carried out to detect the virus, according to official information revealed this Saturday.
According to data from the Interdisciplinary Epidemiological Containment Team (EICE), on Friday alone 1,773 tests were applied, of which 1,731 were negative and 42 positive, bringing the number of COVID-19 infections to 784, while deaths remained at 17.
In total, 39,079 'Polymerase Chain Reaction' (PCR) tests have been carried out throughout the Salvadoran territory - where the virus has already spread - all with 99.99% accuracy, according to the information.
The department of San Salvador is the epicenter of new coronavirus infections with 344 cases, followed by La Libertad (center) and Santa Ana (northwest) with 64 and 49, respectively.
On Thursday, El Salvador's security authorities imposed a "strict" and "rigid" quarantine throughout the Central American country to try to curb infections and prevent the collapse of its health system, according to the government.
This quarantine was installed the same day that a law passed by the Legislative Assembly came into force, authorizing the Executive to detain and confine in "containment centers" those persons who allegedly violate domiciliary quarantine.
The head of the Salvadoran Government Cabinet, Carolina Recinos, warned at a press conference that it will be a "rigid, disciplined and" absolute "quarantine until May 21.
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