An 18-year-old woman with no known medical history has become Guam\u2019s 130th COVID-19-related fatality, even as six new cases of COVID-19 were identified in Guam last Feb. 6.<\/p>\n
According to the Joint Information Center, the young patient passed away at the Guam Memorial Hospital on Feb. 7 at approximately 9:15am. JIC stated that the patient was admitted to the GMH Emergency Room last Feb. 7 and tested positive upon evaluation.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo her family and friends, [first gentleman] Jeff [Cook], Lt. Gov. Josh [Tenorio], and I express our condolences and sympathies. Please know you are not alone in your grief,\u201d said Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero. She added that Guam\u2019s residents \u201ccan\u2019t forget the necessary precautions\u201d to keep the island safe.<\/p>\n
This is Guam\u2019s first death after two weeks. Guam announced its 129th death last Jan. 25\u2014a 50-year-old man who\u2019d been hospitalized with COVID-19 since just before Christmas. <\/p>\n
Additionally, JIC announced it had already administered 35,337 doses of the Moderna Inc. and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to date. More than 8,700 people have received both doses. Guam\u2019s population is about 167,000. <\/p>\n
Naval Base Guam was able to inoculate its front-line personnel last Jan. 4, and Andersen Air Force Base began doing so about a week later.<\/p>\n
JIC reported six new cases of COVID-19 that were identified out of 99 tests performed last Saturday.<\/p>\n
To date, there have been a total of 7,649 cases of COVID-19 in Guam, with 130 deaths, 103 cases in active isolation, and 7,416 not in active isolation.<\/p>\n
COVID-19 on Saipan<\/strong><\/p>\n During his radio news briefing last Friday, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres reiterated the importance of getting vaccinated, saying \u201cwe all have a role in bringing back tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n Torres stated that getting the community vaccinated will also bring back the revenue that the CNMI needs. \u201cUntil the COVID-19 issue is addressed, we can\u2019t expect our tourism market to reopen anytime soon. That\u2019s why it\u2019s very critical that our information goes out to our community to get vaccinated,\u201d said Torres.<\/p>\n He encouraged community members to register to get vaccinated if they haven\u2019t done so yet.<\/p>\n Just by taking the vaccine, the community is helping rebuild the economy, and not only protecting themselves, but also the people they love, Torres added.<\/p>\n Another factor that Torres emphasized why it\u2019s important to get the CNMI\u2019s tourism market back up is so that people could go back to a full 80-hour biweekly work period, employment, and other opportunities. \u201cThe only way for us to get back to [an 80-hour biweekly work period], the only way for us to get employment…and other opportunities is to get our tourism back, so the faster we get our community tested and vaccinated, the faster we get in the right direction in bringing back our tourism market,\u201d said Torres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An 18-year-old woman with no known medical history has become Guam\u2019s 130th COVID-19-related fatality, even…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":330254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-338138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-guam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338138","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=338138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}