Another day and two more individuals have tested positive for COVID-19, raising the CNMI\u2019s total number of cases to 98.<\/p>\n
According to a Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. statement yesterday, the two new cases were identified through travel screenings and confirmed positive through testing upon arrival and on their fifth day of testing.<\/p>\n
The individuals have been transported to the quarantine facility, the Alternate Care Site at Kanoa Resort in Susupe, which is also the designated isolation area where CHCC staff will keep a close eye on infected individuals.<\/p>\n
CHCC has already conducted the initial contact tracing for the most immediate contacts of the two new cases, including passengers on the same flight.<\/p>\n
COVID-19 in Guam<\/strong><\/p>\n The COVID-19 death toll I Guam has now reached 85.<\/p>\n According to the Joint Information Center, Guam\u2019s 80th COVID-19-related fatality was pronounced dead on arrival at Guam Memorial Hospital at approximately 9:40pm last Tuesday, Nov. 3. The patient was a 63-year-old male with underlying health conditions that were compounded by COVID-19. Additionally, he was a known COVID-19 case and was previously admitted to the U.S. Naval Hospital Guam.<\/p>\n JIC was then notified that Guam\u2019s 81st COVID-19-related fatality occurred at approximately 11:18am last Wednesday, Nov. 4. The patient was a 49-year-old male with underlying health conditions that were further compounded by COVID-19. He was admitted to the Guam Memorial Hospital on Oct. 9 and was a known COVID-19 case. Later that same day, Guam\u2019s 82nd COVID-19-related fatality occurred at approximately 4:06pm. The patient was a 55-year-old male with underlying conditions that were further compounded by COVID-19. He was admitted to GMH on Oct. 20 after testing positive at a private clinic earlier that day. That night, at 8:27pm, Guam saw its 83rd COVID-19-related fatality, a 55-year-old male with comorbidities that were further compounded by COVID-19 who died at GMH. He was admitted to GMH on Oct. 20 and tested positive upon admission.<\/p>\n The 84th COVID-19-related fatality occurred at GMH yesterday\u2014an 84-year-old male with underlying conditions that were further compounded by COVID-19. He was pronounced deceased at approximately 12:08am. He was admitted to GMH on Nov. 1 after testing positive upon admission at the Guam Regional Medical City the day prior.<\/p>\n The 85th COVID-19-related fatality also occurred at GMH at approximately 8:10am yesterday. The patient was a 56-year-old male with underlying conditions. He was admitted to GMH last Oct. 25 and was a known positive case.<\/p>\n \u201cEach of us are soldiers in this fight, and victory requires us all to remain vigilant. We are the front-lines, and I call on the people of Guam to do what is right,\u201d said Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero. \u201cMay [their] memory be a blessing to all those who knew [them].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another day and two more individuals have tested positive for COVID-19, raising the CNMI\u2019s total…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":333029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[51,257],"class_list":["post-333018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-guam","tag-nmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}