{"id":139755,"date":"2020-03-30T12:58:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T12:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=139755"},"modified":"2020-03-30T17:11:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T17:11:54","slug":"859-persons-test-positive-in-the-dominican-republic-deaths-climb-to-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/30\/859-persons-test-positive-in-the-dominican-republic-deaths-climb-to-39\/","title":{"rendered":"859 persons test positive in the Dominican Republic; deaths climb to 39"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ministerio-de-Salud-Facebook-e1585151923251.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-138329\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Sunday, 29 March 2020 bulletin No. 10, the Ministry of Public Health reported that as of Saturday, 28 March at 6 pm, 859 persons have tested positive for the new coronavirus, and 39 have died, for a 5% mortality rate in the Dominican Republic. Of the deaths, 21 died in San Francisco de Macoris. Of those testing positive, 131 are hospitalized and another 686 have been authorized to remain isolated at home. The Public Health Minister said that three patients have tested negative and are authorized to leave the hospital. The Ministry of Public Health says that of the 2,590 persons tested so far, 1,731 were negative. The number of cases is expected to increase now that the Ministry of Public Health and private laboratories are making more testing available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent statistics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 March: 581 cases, 20 deaths (Bulletin No. 8) <br>\n28 March: 719 cases, 28 deaths (Bulletin No. 9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 March: 859 cases, 39 deaths (Bulletin No. 10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bulletin No. 10 of the Ministry of Public Health, which compiles cases up to Saturday, 28 March at 6 pm, says the positive cases of Covid-19 were located in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National District: 376 cases, 5 deaths, 1% mortality<br>\nSanto Domingo Province: 101, 5 deaths, 5% mortality<br>\nSantiago: 97, 2 deaths, 2% mortality<br>\nDuarte (San Francisco de Macoris): 83, 21 deaths, 25% mortality <br>\nLa Vega: 48 cases, 1 death, 2% <br>\nLa Altagracia (Higuey, Veron, Punta Cana): 21 cases<br>\nSan Pedro de Macor\u00eds: 16, 2 deaths, 1% mortality<br>\nSaman\u00e1: 9, 1 death, 11% mortality<br>\nS\u00e1nchez Ram\u00edrez (Cotu\u00ed): 7 cases<br>\nEspaillat (Moca): 10, up from 5<br>\nLa Romana: 15 cases<br>\nPuerto Plata: 16 cases<br>\nSan Crist\u00f3bal: 98 cases<br>\nMar\u00eda Trinidad S\u00e1nchez (Salcedo): 4 cases<br>\nMonse\u00f1or Nouel (Bonao): 11 cases, 1 death, 9%<br>\nHato Mayor: 2 cases<br>\nSan Juan de la Maguana: 3, 1 death, 33% mortality<br>\nBarahona: 2 cases<br>\nMonte Plata: 1 case<br>\nAzua: 6 cases<br>\nIndependencia: 1 case<br>\nValverde: 2 cases<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provinces with no reported cases of COVID-19:<br>\nBahoruco, Dajab\u00f3n, El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a, El Seibo, Pedernales, and San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp.gob.do\/web\/?page_id=6682\">Ministry of Public Health<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 March 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Sunday, 29 March 2020 bulletin No. 10, the Ministry of Public Health reported that as of Saturday, 28 March at 6 pm, 859 persons have tested positive for the new coronavirus, and 39 have died, for a 5% mortality rate in the Dominican Republic. Of the deaths, 21 died in San Francisco de &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/30\/859-persons-test-positive-in-the-dominican-republic-deaths-climb-to-39\/\" 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\/139755"}],"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=139755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139757,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139755\/revisions\/139757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}