The number of people who have lost their lives in Panama due to the new coronavirus (COVID-19) rose to 256 this Wednesday, while the number of confirmed cases reached 8,944, with a total of 161 new infections.
The head of epidemiology of the Ministry of Health of Panama (
Minsa), Lourdes Moreno, explained that a total of 2,248 patients are in home isolation, 296 are hospitalized in the ward and 77 are in intensive care.
In addition to accounting for a total of 6,067 have been clinically recovered.
He added that to date a total of 45,873 tests have been carried out to detect
COVID-19, of which 10,513 have been positive and 35,358 have been negative.
Moreno highlighted that Panama records 10,722 tests per million inhabitants today.