The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. reported yesterday morning that 43 individuals were identified and confirmed positive for COVID-19, bringing the CNMI\u2019s total to 855. The new cases were found through surveillance testing on Nov. 29 and have since been quarantined and actively monitored. <\/p>\n
CHCC also reported that there are 397 active cases of COVID-19 right now and six active hospitalizations. Of the six, five are unvaccinated, one is vaccinated, and no one is on a ventilator.<\/p>\n
Of the 43 new cases, 26 were found through community-based testing and 17 through contact tracing. By vaccination status, of the 43, 11 were fully vaccinated, nine were unvaccinated, one was ineligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, and the remaining were pending verification as of 3am yesterday.<\/p>\n
Since Oct. 28, there have been 564 new cases. Of the 564, 266 were found through contact tracing, 286 through community-based testing, and 12 through travel testing.<\/p>\n
As for its vaccination updates, CHCC reported that 560 COVID-19 shots were administered on Nov. 29, bringing the CNMI\u2019s vaccination rate to 86.4%. Getting vaccinated, and the CNMI\u2019s high vaccination rate \u201caffords the community more protection against severe illness, hospitalization, and death,\u201d said CHCC.<\/p>\n
Tinian cases<\/strong><\/p>\n In an interview yesterday with KUAM\u2019s Thomas Manglo\u00f1a II, Tinian Mayor Edwin P. Aldan said that he met with Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force chair Warren F. Villagomez yesterday to discuss Tinian\u2019s further plans because of four community cases of COVID-19 having already been found on Tinian. <\/p>\n Aldan said that task force personnel on Tinian have been conducting contact tracing and COVID-19 testing on the island since the afternoon of Nov. 30 and that discussions have been ongoing with him and the CNMI\u2019s health leaders regarding sending Tinian\u2019s cases to Saipan for isolation and care.<\/p>\n Giving his take on sending Tinian\u2019s cases to Saipan, Aldan told Manglo\u00f1a that Tinian residents have expressed to him that they would have more peace of mind if allowed to isolate at home. \u201cA lot of our people are telling me, \u2018Mayor, I\u2019d rather stay at my house than…be put in a room for seven to 10 days [and not] see anyone in my family,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n Aldan said this will be a concern he will raise during his meeting with the CNMI\u2019s health leaders, but acknowledged that this would deviate from the CNMI\u2019s COVID-19 protocols and that if any more issues arise on Tinian due to deviating from the protocols, the responsibility goes back to him. <\/p>\n \u201cThese things are outside the protocol. Now if we deviate from the protocol…I\u2019m afraid that it\u2019s going to be [all] on me…and that\u2019s a big responsibility,\u201d said Aldan. <\/p>\n Aldan\u2019s interview with KUAM can be found at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D4RxlxDCs4Y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. reported yesterday morning that 43 individuals were identified and confirmed positive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":351516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356947","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}