Thirty-four additional individuals have been confirmed positive for COVID-19, bringing the CNMI total to 10,985 cases since March 28, 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of the 34\u00a0cases identified on March 22, 2022, two were identified on Tinian and six on Rota. The vaccination statuses of the 34\u00a0cases are pending verification.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of March 23, 2022, there\u00a0were seven individuals hospitalized as a result of\u00a0COVID-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of the 10,985 total cases that have been identified in the CNMI, there have already been 10,811 recoveries; 143 active cases; and 31 COVID-19-related deaths. Of the total, 10,205 were identified via community testing and 780 via travel testing.<\/p>\n
CHCC said in a news release Wednesday night that some duplicates were deleted and that Rota recorded 196 cases from March 2 to March 22, 2022. <\/p>\n
\u201cMoving forward, COVID-19 updates will be reported weekly,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
A total of 25\u00a0COVID-19 vaccine shots were administered on March 22, 2022; of the eligible population, 59.4% have already received an additional dose. The vaccination rate is calculated using the 2020 Census population estimates for the CNMI and includes the eligible 5-years-old and older population.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A total of 314 COVID-19 tests were\u00a0conducted on March 22, 2022: 256 via Community-Based Testing; 23 at the Koblerville\u00a0COVID-19 Community Center; and 35 at the Rota Health Center. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thirty-four additional individuals have been confirmed positive for COVID-19, bringing the CNMI total to 10,985…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":361782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364994","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\/364994","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}