Last Updated on June 9, 2020, 2:21 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Haiti has recorded over 3,000 cases of the coronavirus COVID-19 during a period of one month as the country has announced that 262 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the last 24 hours.
Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health has said that the new cases, more than 100 per cent on the previous day, have now brought the total number of cases in the country to 3,334 since the first case of the virus was detected in the country on March 19.
The Ministry said that in the last 30 days, there had been 3,205 more positive cases of the virus and that the death toll had increased by one and has brought the total number of deaths in Haiti due to coronavirus COVID-19 to 51.
The Ministry of Health also said that there are 3,259 active cases of the virus in the country, and there was an increase of 261 in the
past 2 hours, while the number of suspected cases in the country is 7,351 cases since March 19.
Meanwhile, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said that it believes that the real figures regarding the number of people who have tested positive for the virus “are probably much higher”.
MSF, which has opened a 45-bed COVID-19 treatment centre in Haiti last month, said that it is currently treating 25 patients, and they primarily consist of those who are “seriously ill”.
The MSF chief of mission in Haiti, Hassan Issa, said that the group is also following 60 other patients on an outpatient basis in the capital and surrounding areas.
“Some patients come to us with positive test results, and others who need oxygen or hospitalization are treated while we send their test to a government-run laboratory,” Issa added.
MSF said it is also concerned that many people with COVID-19 symptoms are not going to the hospital for treatment, thereby spreading the virus in communities and reducing the chances of survival for individuals.
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