{"id":137274,"date":"2020-03-03T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=137274"},"modified":"2020-03-04T03:01:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T03:01:53","slug":"ministry-of-public-health-coronavirus-is-not-circulating-in-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/03\/ministry-of-public-health-coronavirus-is-not-circulating-in-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Public Health: Coronavirus is not circulating in DR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ministro-de-Salud-El-Caribe-e1583290883239.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137292\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health assured that despite the existence of a proven case of coronavirus in the country, the disease is not circulating in the Dominican Republic and there is no reason for undue anxiety. &#8220;Despite the diagnosis, we want to inform the entire national community that the COVID-19 virus is not circulating in the country as of today,&#8221; said Health Minister Dr. Rafael S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas during a press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said all Dominicans can be confident what is affecting Dominicans this winter season is the seasonal flu or influenza. He said that there are 36 people who are being monitored at home, with the respective measures that must be taken to protect their families and communities where they reside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a press conference, he said that a French patient, who was treated at the Plaza de la Salud and later was taken to the Dr. Ramon de Lara Hospital on San Isidro air force base east of Santo Domingo, tested negative for the coronavirus. A three-year old Swiss boy, and another 15-year old Italian were discharged after also testing negative. The health authorities are waiting for the results of tests on a Russian patient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic announced its first case of coronavirus, that of an Italian tourist who stayed at a resort in Bayahibe. He is suffering a mild case of Covid-19 and is recovering at the Dr. Ram\u00f3n de Lara Air Force Teaching Hospital. The announcement is concurrent with the first case in Manhattan. The Dominican Republic is the most connected country in the Caribbean. In the Caribbean, other cases have been reported in St. Maarten, St Barth\u00e9lemy and Guadeloupe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Health Minister S\u00e1nchez Cardenas said that in the next two weeks a special isolation unit will be opened at the Las Americas naval base to treat people infected with the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At present, there are special units that have been set up at the Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Altagracia Maternity Hospital, the Dr. Marcelino V\u00e9lez Santana Regional General Hospital in Santo Domingo, the Dr. Ricardo Limardo Hospital in Puerto Plata, the Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Cabral y B\u00e1ez Hospital in Santiago and the Dr. Ram\u00f3n de Lara Air Force Teaching Hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/03\/02\/salud-publica-asegura-que-el-coronavirus-no-esta-circulando-en-el-pais\/\">El Caribe<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2020\/03\/02\/606534\/salud-publica-no-hay-circulacion-del-virus-codvid-19-en-republica-dominicana\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2020\/03\/02\/606537\/rd-construye-unidad-de-aislamiento-para-coronavirus-que-estara-lista-en-dos-semanas\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Public Health assured that despite the existence of a proven case of coronavirus in the country, the disease is not circulating in the Dominican Republic and there is no reason for undue anxiety. &#8220;Despite the diagnosis, we want to inform the entire national community that the COVID-19 virus is not circulating in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/03\/ministry-of-public-health-coronavirus-is-not-circulating-in-dr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137293,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137274\/revisions\/137293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}