The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. reported late Wednesday that, as of\u00a0Feb.\u00a016, a total of 11\u00a0persons are hospitalized\u00a0as a result of\u00a0COVID-19, three of them unvaccinated and eight vaccinated. One of the 11\u00a0is on a ventilator.<\/p>\n
This comes as 181 new cases were added Wednesday to the CNMI\u2019s COVID-19 tally, which now stands at a total of\u00a07,927\u00a0cases since March 26, 2020.<\/p>\n
Of the 181\u00a0cases identified in the community on Feb. 15, 2022,16 were\u00a0identified on Tinian. The vaccination statuses of the 181\u00a0cases are pending verification.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CHCC assured that the 181 new cases have been isolated and are being monitored.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of the 7,927 total cases that have been identified in the CNMI, there have already been 6,091\u00a0recoveries; 1,811 active cases; and 25 COVID-19-related deaths.<\/p>\n
A total of 7,310 were identified via community testing, while 617\u00a0were identified via travel testing.<\/p>\n
A total of 43 COVID-19 vaccine shots were administered on Feb. 16, 2022; of the eligible population,\u00a055%\u00a0have received an additional dose.\u00a0(Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. reported late Wednesday that, as of\u00a0Feb.\u00a016, a total of 11\u00a0persons are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":362451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362450","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}