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Rt of COVID-19 in Panama decreases to 0.94

The director of the Metropolitan Health Region, Israel Cedeño revealed this Tuesday in the Epidemiological Report of COVID-19 Indicators that Panama managed to reduce the Rt or reproductive number of the virus to 0.94, compared to the 0.99 that was presented last week.

This is the third week in which the reproductive number has remained below 1, according to the director.

Cedeño added that in the third week of August the epidemiological curve shows a downward trend, contrary to what happened in July where the trend was upward.

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While the trend for hospitalized patients in the Intensive Care Unit remains between 153 and 154, which keeps the curve flat, without increases.

The provinces with the highest incidence of cases are Panama and Darien; while among those with less than 500 infections registered are Coclé, Herrera and Los Santos.

Cedeño said that the lethality of the coronavirus remains at 2.2%, however he adds that the curve in this aspect shows that since the last week of July it has maintained a downward trend in deaths, which is sustained.

Regarding the lethality of the virus at the regional level, Cedeño indicated that Panama occupies the 18th position; being Mexico (10.8%), Canada (7.3%) and Ecuador (5.9%) those who head this table.

In the same position in the region, Panama is planted on the amount of infections it presents with respect to its number of inhabitants.

Finally, Minister Counselor Eyra Ruiz stated in her report that an important indicator that also allows reopening, which will take place from September 7, is the availability of hospital capacity and on this she advanced that the national health system has 2,414 beds available, equivalent to 41% of capacity.

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