{"id":140287,"date":"2020-04-09T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=140287"},"modified":"2020-04-09T15:18:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:18:30","slug":"dominican-republic-coronavirus-covid-20-bulletin-20-8-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/09\/dominican-republic-coronavirus-covid-20-bulletin-20-8-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic \u2013 Coronavirus Covid-20: Bulletin #20: 8 April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Boletin-20-MSP-e1586435599171.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140238\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Coronavirus Bulletin #20 shows the Dominican Republic with 2,111 confirmed cases, 155 new cases and 108 deaths. The National District leads with the most new cases. Some 6,358 PCR diagnostic tests are accounted for in the official statistical bulletin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The confirmed cases continue to be concentrated in the National District and Santo Domingo Province (Greater Santo Domingo), Santiago, Duarte and La Vega. Many of the new cases in the National <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 7 April at 6pm, the largest number of new cases were reported for the National District (39) and Santo Domingo province (34). Next in number of new cases are Santiago (29), Duarte (13), Monse\u00f1or Nouel (6), San Crist\u00f3bal (6), S\u00e1nchez Ram\u00edrez \/ Cotu\u00ed (5), Hermanas Mirabal \/ Salcedo (5) and Puerto Plata (4) of 32 provinces and the National District.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Bulletin #20 of the Ministry\u2019s Epidemiology Department, the evolution of the health crisis nationwide is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National District: 762 cases, 39 new cases, 17 deaths, including 2 new deaths<br>Santo Domingo province: 348 cases, 34 new cases, 16 deaths, including 2 new deaths<br>Santiago: 274 cases, 29 new cases, 8 deaths<br> Duarte (San Francisco de Macor\u00eds): 154 cases, 13 new cases, 38 deaths<br>La Vega: 109 cases, 6 deaths<br>La Altagracia (Higuey, Veron, Punta Cana): 44 cases, 1 death<br>Espaillat (Moca, Gaspar Hern\u00e1ndez): 55 cases, 9 new cases, 1 death<br>Monse\u00f1or Nouel (Bonao): 45 cases, 6 new cases, 3 deaths, including 1 new death<br>Puerto Plata: 42 cases, 4 new cases<br>La Romana: 35 cases, 1 death<br>San Crist\u00f3bal: 40 cases, 6 new cases, 1 death<br>S\u00e1nchez Ram\u00edrez (Cotu\u00ed): 34 cases, 5 new cases, 3 new deaths, <br>San Pedro de Macor\u00eds: 26 cases, 4 deaths<br>Hermanas Mirabal \/ Salcedo: 28 cases, 5 new cases, 2 deaths<br>Mar\u00eda Trinidad S\u00e1nchez \/ Nagua: 20 cases, 1 new case, 1 death<br>Saman\u00e1: 15 cases, 1 death<br>San Juan de la Maguana: 13 cases, 3 deaths<br>Barahona: 12 cases<br>Valverde: 11 cases<br>Peravia: 12 cases, 2 new cases, 1 death<br>Azua: 9 cases, 1 new case<br>Santiago Rodr\u00edguez: 5 cases<br>Hato Mayor: 5 cases, 1 new case<br>Monte Plata: 4 cases, 1 death<br>Montecristi: 3 cases<br>Dajab\u00f3n: 1 case<br>Independencia: 1 case<br>Pedernales: 1 case<br>El Seibo: 2 cases <br>Baoruco: 1 case<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provinces with no reported cases of Covid-19 as of 7 April 2020 at 6pm: El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a and San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haiti reports 27 confirmed cases and one death, with 264 PCR diagnostic tests carried out as of 7 April 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story in Spanish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirusrd.gob.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Boletin-especial-20-COVID-19.pdf\">Ministry of Public Health<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t0z20YWWHpI\">YouTube<\/a> &#8212; Press Conference Bulletin #20<br><a href=\"https:\/\/lenouvelliste.com\/article\/214636\/haiti-deux-nouveaux-de-coronavirus-enregistres-27-au-total-officiellement\">Le Nouvelliste<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus Bulletin #20 shows the Dominican Republic with 2,111 confirmed cases, 155 new cases and 108 deaths. The National District leads with the most new cases. Some 6,358 PCR diagnostic tests are accounted for in the official statistical bulletin. The confirmed cases continue to be concentrated in the National District and Santo Domingo Province (Greater &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/09\/dominican-republic-coronavirus-covid-20-bulletin-20-8-april-2020\/\" 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\/140287"}],"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=140287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140291,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140287\/revisions\/140291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}