A combined 95 new COVID-19 cases representing two reporting periods were reported Thursday and Friday last week, while the number of individuals hospitalized\u00a0as a result of\u00a0COVID-19 have declined to four, based on the latest news releases from the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.<\/p>\n
On Friday, CHCC reported 53 individuals who were confirmed positive for COVID-19, bringing the CNMI total to 10,379\u00a0cases since March 26, 2020.\u00a0These 53\u00a0cases were identified on March 10, 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The day before, CHCC reported 42 who were confirmed positive for COVID-19, all of them identified on March 9, 2022. Of that number, five were identified on Tinian.<\/p>\n
The vaccination statuses of the 95 new\u00a0cases are still pending verification.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of the 10,379\u00a0total cases that have been identified in the CNMI, there have been 10,094\u00a0recoveries; 255 active cases; and 30 COVID-19-related deaths. A total of 9,661 were identified via community testing and 718 via travel testing.<\/p>\n
On the vaccination front, a total of 94 COVID-19 vaccine shots were administered on March 11, 2022; of the eligible population,\u00a057.8%\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 326\u00a0COVID-19 tests\u00a0were\u00a0conducted on\u00a0March 10, 2022: 266\u00a0via Community-Based Testing; 30 at\u00a0the Koblerville\u00a0COVID-19 Community Center; and 30 at the Rota Health Center. (Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A combined 95 new COVID-19 cases representing two reporting periods were reported Thursday and Friday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":360905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364089","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=364089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}