The Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force and the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. have confirmed the CNMI\u2019s 26th COVID-19-related death last Saturday.<\/p>\n
The latest fatality was announced in terse news release that, per CHCC\u2019s standard procedure, did not disclose other details.<\/p>\n
In Guam, its Joint Information Center was notified that Guam\u2019s 316th COVID-19-related fatality. It occurred at the Health Services of the Pacific clinic on Feb. 8, 2022. The patient was a 57-year-old female, fully vaccinated without a booster shot, with underlying health conditions who tested positive on Jan. 31, 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a statement, Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero said: \u201cLoss and tragedy fall on our island once again. [First gentleman] Jeff [Cook], [Lt. Gov.] Josh [Tenorio] and I send our thoughts and prayers to her and her loved ones. We cannot do this alone, and we continue to plead with the community to practice caution in reducing your risk of exposure to this deadly virus, heed the warning signs, and seek immediate treatment for you and your loved ones who are ill.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
This came as Guam reported a total of 764 new COVID-19 cases across three days (141 on Feb. 20; 179 on Feb. 19; and 444 on Feb. 18).<\/p>\n
In the CNMI, CHCC reported a total of 495 new cases, bringing the CNMI total to 8,422\u00a0cases since March 26, 2020.\u00a0The vaccination statuses of the new\u00a0cases are pending verification.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CHCC first reported late Feb. 17 a total of 226 cases, followed by 158 cases it reported on Feb. 18, and 11 new cases on Feb. 19.<\/p>\n
Of the 111\u00a0cases reported last Saturday, 108 were identified on Feb. 18, 2022, and\u00a0three prior to Feb. 18, 2022. Six of the new cases were\u00a0identified on Tinian and\u00a0one on Rota.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of the 158\u00a0cases reported last Friday, 153 were identified in the community on Feb. 17, 2022, and five prior to Feb. 17, 2022. Five of the cases were\u00a0identified on Tinian and two on Rota.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of the 226\u00a0cases reported late Thursday, 218 were identified on Feb. 16, 2022, and eight prior to Feb. 16, 2022. All 226 cases were community transmissions and 11 were\u00a0identified on Tinian.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of\u00a0Feb.\u00a019,\u00a02022, there\u00a0were nine\u00a0individuals in the CNMI who are hospitalized\u00a0as a result of\u00a0COVID-19. One of them is unvaccinated and eight are vaccinated. One of the nine\u00a0is on a ventilator.<\/p>\n
So far, of the total cases that have been identified in the CNMI, as of\u00a0Feb. 18, 2022. There have been 6,765\u00a0recoveries; 1,631 active cases; and 26 COVID-19-related deaths.<\/p>\n
A total of 207\u00a0COVID-19 vaccine shots were administered on Feb. 19, 2022; of the eligible population,\u00a055.7%\u00a0have received an additional dose. The vaccination rate is calculated using the 2020 Census\u00a0population estimates for the CNMI and includes the eligible 5-years-old and older population.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A total of 875\u00a0COVID-19 tests were conducted on\u00a0Feb. 18, 2022.\u00a0(Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force and the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. have confirmed the CNMI\u2019s 26th…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":362560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-362565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-nmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362565","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=362565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}