{"id":195354,"date":"2023-03-21T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=195354"},"modified":"2023-03-21T08:11:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T12:11:41","slug":"coronavirus-covid-19-bulletin-1096-19-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/21\/coronavirus-covid-19-bulletin-1096-19-march-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Covid-19 Bulletin #1,096\/ 19 March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/covid-1096-1024x554.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195355\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The 4-week Covid-19 positivity rate is now at 0.54%, with the 24-hour positivity rate at 1.36%, as per Covid-19 Bulletin #1,096 dated 19 March 2023. The downward trend in cases continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of Covid-19 registered cases in the Dominican Republic for Bulletin #1,096 was 7, resulting from 513 first time Covid-19 lab tests, and 374 PCR tests. The seven-day average of lab-reported cases is 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With very few exceptions, most cases are mild and are treated as a cold at home. The symptoms are a cough, runny nose and fever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of active cases is at 36 for bulletin #1,096. The seven-day active cases average is now 32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except in hospitals, every day less people wear facial masks in the Dominican Republic. Nevertheless, in recent days, given the impact of seasonal flu, people may use face masks as a preventive measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per Bulletin #1,096, with the deadline of 19 March 2023, the Ministry of Public Health has registered 660,924 PCR or antigen-confirmed cases since the first case on 1 March 2020. Covid-19 vaccines are available for free in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of the 19 March 2023 deadline, 4,384 persons are reported to have died of the disease in the Dominican Republic, a nation of more than 10.8 million adults since March 2020. The 1M\/death rate is at 419.58 compared to the 2,830.10 global average. The fatality rate in the DR is at 0.66%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 7 reported lab cases were all in Puerto Plata province for the 19 March 2023 deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 March 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4-week Covid-19 positivity rate is now at 0.54%, with the 24-hour positivity rate at 1.36%, as per Covid-19 Bulletin #1,096 dated 19 March 2023. The downward trend in cases continues. The number of Covid-19 registered cases in the Dominican Republic for Bulletin #1,096 was 7, resulting from 513 first time Covid-19 lab tests, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/21\/coronavirus-covid-19-bulletin-1096-19-march-2023\/\" 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":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195354"}],"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=195354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195357,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195354\/revisions\/195357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}