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7 COVID hospitals at 70% capacity levels
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5 more deaths, 324 new covid19 cases detected
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The Ministry of Health reported five new deaths in its update on Friday. This brings the death toll to 196.
The fatalities were one elderly male and one elderly female, each with co-morbidities, as well as two middle-aged males and one middle-aged female, all without co-morbidities.
The update said 324 new cases had been detected from samples taken between May 4 and 6.
There are 3,480 active cases.
Since March 2020, there have been 12,720 cases, of which 9,044 have recovered.
There are 330 patients in hospital, 27 more than Thursday. Of these, there are 137 people at the Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility, with 11 in the intensive care unit and 41 in the high dependency unit. There are 97 people at the Caura Hospital, 35 at the Augustus Long Hospital, 38 at the Arima General Hospital, 21 at the Scarborough Regional Hospital, Fort King George and two at the Scarborough Regional Hospital, Signal Hill.
Covid19 hospital system 70% full
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PRINCIPAL medical officer of institutions at the Health Ministry Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards said the occupancy rate in the parallel health care system is now at 70 per cent, the highest it has been since the beginning of the pandemic.
She was speaking at a press conference at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann s, on Friday afternoon.
She said the rolling average of daily cases is at 471 and an additional 40 patients a day are being admitted.
Eighteen per cent of people (18 out of 100 patients) who become infected are admitted to hospital, while only three per cent are discharged, she said, and the other 15 per cent stay in hospital longer.