Panama registered 603 new cases of COVID-19 and 21 new deaths in the last 24 hours, reported the Ministry of Health (Minsa).
With these figures, the accumulated cases and 1,788 deaths from this virus increased to 82,543 with a fatality rate of 2.2%.
In the last 24 hours, 2,199 new tests were carried out to detect
COVID-19 for a 27% positivity rate. In total, 273,685 tests have been carried out, of which 189,349 have been negative.
There are a total of 24,910 active cases and 55,845 recovered patients for a total of 53,857.
Of the active patients, 22,692 are at home and 586 in hotels, while 1,632 are hospitalized (1,476 in ward and 156 in intensive care).
The townships with more than 10 cases reported on August 17 are:
Puerto Piña (29)
Tocumen (21)
Omar Torrijos (20)
José Domingo Espinar (17)
Pacora (17)
Alcalde Díaz (16)
Chimán (16)
Ailigandí (15)
Belisario Frías (14)
Chepo (14)
Las Cumbres (13)
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