Wednesday, 23 March
Jimmy Nolan writing in the Solomon Times Online today has said, and I quote
Cumulative cases of Positive COVID-19 cases in the country have surpassed the 10,000 mark, while deaths resulting from COVID-19 has now reached 128.
Health Minister Dr. Culwick Togamana gave the update during his COVID-19 situation update on the national broadcaster, SIBC.
He says the country has registered a total of 251 new positive cases over the past 72 hours, pushing the country's cumulative total to 10,204.
Of the 251 new cases, 53 are in Honiara, 1 in Malaita, 17 in Guadalcanal, 87 in West, 9 in Choiseul, 59 in Isabel, 16 in Makira and 9 in Rennell/Bellona. There were updated no reports from Central, while Temotu remains COVID-19 free.
The Health Minister says trends show that the 7 days rolling average since the outbreak in January has declined, with March recording an average of 120-160 cases, compared to 200 cases in January and February.
He says overall cases could be higher than what is recorded, seeing that a lot of people that were sick during the outbreak chose to stay home and did not get tested.
He urges the public to continue with public health safety measures, and to get fully vaccinated or boosted to get maximum protection.
End of quote.
Meanwhile, Radio New Zealand, also today, reported in a Covid-19 update that the death toll from Covid in New Zealand had risen to 200, and there were 20,907 new community cases recorded.
Quoting RNZ’s bulletin it said.
New Zealand's total death toll of people with Covid-19 has now grown to more than 200, with 11 new deaths announced today, as well as 20,087 new community cases.
The new deaths bring the official total of people who have died with Covid-19 to 210.
The 11 deaths announced today include two from Northland, five from the Auckland region, one from Bay of Plenty and three from the Wellington region. One of these people was in their 30s, one in their 60s, one in their 70s, four were in their 80s and four in their 90s. Six were men and five were women.
The seven-day rolling average of deaths is nine.
There are also 960 people in hospital with the coronavirus today, down from 1016 yesterday, but the number of people in ICU has grown from 25 yesterday to 31 today.
There were 20,907 new community cases of Covid-19 and a further 15 deaths yesterday.
The ministry said 34 cases were also identified at the border.
New Zealand has now recorded a total of 517,495 confirmed cases of Covid-19.
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Yours sincerely
Frank Short
