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Published Monday, December 7, 2020
More than a thousand covid-19 patients
were recovered in the Covid Hospital
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Since its opening in April, the Specialized Patient Care Center with Covid-19, so-called Covid Hospital, has treated 1,016 patients infected with covid-19 that have overcome the virus.
Of the total number of patients treated at the hospital, 218 died, approximately 21% of the cases, confirmed Mario Ruiz Cubillo, medical manager. "This is successful considering the complexity of the therapeutic approach and the degree of severity these patients present," he said.
On Friday, the hospital registered 71 patients infected with covid-19, of these 43 men and 28 women.
Between July and October, the Insurance Institute provided 48 beds and sent medical staff for the care of covid-19 patients.
However, due to the increase in traffic accidents, the institute requested the return of the beds and the medical team, so the capacity to care for covid-19 patients at the Covid Hospital was reduced.
Earlier in the year, Social Security invested $16 million to develop the hospital, to build the hospital in the facilities of the former National Rehabilitation Center.
In April, the Covid Hospital began operating exclusively for the care of patients infected with the coronavirus covid-19.
Since their aperture, 10,944 covid-19 patients have been attended. The hospital has an approximate 16% death rate, where 1,839 patients have died, according to Social Security statistics.
Health authorities call on the public to increase sanitary precautionary measures to avoid the spread of covid-19, especially during holidays. Explore specialists recommendations to avoid the contagion with the virus, in the article "Authorities make a call to suppress the spread of covid-19 during the holiday season," published last Thursday in A.M. Costa Rica.
As authorities continue a campaign for sanitary precautions, the number of covid-19 cases continue to rise. On Sunday, the Ministry of Health provided the most up-to-date statistics:
• 1,180 new covid-19 cases, bringing the total to 46,123 active cases.
• 20,086 foreign-born people have been infected with a total of 143,685 cases since March, approximately 14% of the total cases. Of these, authorities confirmed the death of 32 foreign-born patients. But since October, there is no updated information about foreign-born deaths due to covid-19.
• 577 patients are being treated in public hospitals, where 213 patients are in ICU’s in delicate health conditions (ages range from 1 to 91-years-old). And 364 patients are in recovery rooms. Many of the remaining infected patients are quarantined in their homes.
• 95,789 coronavirus patients have fully recovered, which is a 66.7% recovery rate of the total cases since March.
• 404,440 medical covid-19 tests have been performed in Costa Rica since March, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.
• 1,773 deaths of people infected with covid-19, approximately 1.2% death rate of the total cases since March. Of these 666 women and 1,107 men. The ages range from a 9-year-old to a 101-year-old person.
Readers can see the updated number of total
patients in each district at the National
Distance Education University on its Covid-19 Map.
According to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering, CSSE, at Johns Hopkins University, the pandemic has killed 1,535,492 people worldwide.
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