A combined 114 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the CNMI last week, with 59 new cases reported on Thursday night and 55 new cases reported last Friday. These numbers bring the CNMI total to 10,689\u00a0cases since March 28, 2020.\u00a0The vaccination statuses of all 114\u00a0cases are pending verification.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Also, as of\u00a0March 18, 2022, there\u00a0were three\u00a0individuals hospitalized\u00a0as a result of\u00a0COVID-19, one unvaccinated and two fully vaccinated. With the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. reporting five hospitalized\u00a0as a result of\u00a0COVID-19 on Thursday, this presumably means that two patients have already been discharged from the hospital.<\/p>\n
Of the 55 cases that were reported last Friday, CHCC said that 54 were identified on March 17, 2022; and one prior to March 17, 2022. Five cases were identified\u00a0on Tinian on March 17.<\/p>\n
Of the 59\u00a0cases reported late Thursday, CHCC said that 58 were identified on March 16, 2022; and one prior to March 16, 2022. Eight of these cases were identified\u00a0on Tinian on March 16, 2022.<\/p>\n
Of the 10,689 total cases that have been identified in the CNMI, there have already been 10,412\u00a0recoveries; 246 active cases; and 31 COVID-19-related deaths. Of that number, 9,927 were identified via community testing and 762 via travel testing.<\/p>\n
A total of 84\u00a0COVID-19 vaccine shots were administered on March 18, 2022; of the eligible population,\u00a059.2%\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. A correction has been made.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A total of 328\u00a0COVID-19 tests\u00a0were\u00a0conducted on\u00a0March 17, 2022: 231\u00a0via Community-Based Testing; seven at\u00a0the Koblerville\u00a0COVID-19 Community Center; 11 at the Tinian Health Center; and 79 at the Rota Health Center. (Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A combined 114 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the CNMI last week, with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":363599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364594","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\/364594","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=364594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}