The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. announced Wednesday night that 61 positive cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Dec. 20, with 12 found through contact tracing, 44 through community testing, and five through travel testing.<\/p>\n
CHCC also reported that, as of Dec. 21, there have been 1,615 recoveries, 730 active cases, and five COVID-19-related deaths of the cases since Oct. 28. <\/p>\n
As of Dec. 22, 12 patients are in the hospital due to COVID-19, of which nine are unvaccinated and three are vaccinated, otherwise also known as \u201cbreakthrough\u201d cases. CHCC reported that one of the 12 is on a ventilator and one patient was discharged from CHCC\u2019s hospital.<\/p>\n
CHCC reported a total of 395 COVID-19 vaccine shots were administered on Dec. 22, bringing the CNMI\u2019s vaccination rate to 92.5%. Registering for COVID-19 vaccines can be done at www.vaccinatecnmi.com.<\/p>\n
CHCC also reported that a total of 574 COVID-19 tests were conducted on Dec. 21, comprising travel and surveillance testing, not including the testing numbers from the Department of Fire & Emergency Medical Services\u2019 antigen COVID-19 testing. Registering for community-based testing can be done at https:\/\/covidtesting.chcc.health\/.<\/p>\n
More accessible<\/strong><\/p>\n In an interview earlier this week, CHCC chief executive officer Esther L. Mu\u00f1a said the goal for CHCC in creating the COVID-19 Community Center at the Koblerville Youth Center is to have a single place where the community can get answers to their questions and concerns about COVID-19.<\/p>\n \u201cThe purpose of the center is to provide you with the information because once you know [more about COVID-19], I believe that some of that fear can go away. \u2026That\u2019s really what our whole purpose here is\u2014we want to be more accessible to you [and] bring the services to you rather than\u2026you not knowing and doing things that could [put your families at risk],\u201d said Mu\u00f1a.<\/p>\n The center is a hub where individuals can obtain their COVID-19 results, get confirmatory testing done, get assessed for monoclonal antibody treatment, and obtain guidance on all COVID-19 matters, including what to do if they are a close contact of a positive case. The center is open seven days a week including holidays from 8am to 4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. announced Wednesday night that 61 positive cases of COVID-19 were confirmed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":358369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-358366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358366","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=358366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}