Santo Domingo – The Dominican government issued on Monday, for the first time, a COVID-19 medical bulletin focused on the tourist areas of the councheck out, to disseminate the low occurrence of the disease in those regions and to publicize to publicize the reactivation of this economic sector, the main sector of the counterattack.
The newsletter, ready through the Ministry of Public Health, indicates that in the following week 36 new infections were registered in the country’s five main tourist regions.
Since the start of the pandemic, another 227 people have died in these coronavirus regions, two of whom have been recorded in the last 24 hours, particularly in the Cabarete and Sosa region in the north of the country.
The Punta Cana region, the country’s main tourist center, recorded new infections last week, according to bulletin data.
The document notes that tourist spaces accounted for 0. 8% of all infections of the week, “showing a much smaller threat point in those spaces”. In addition, the newsletter provides assistance with immediate testing of airport passengers, with two positives between 1829 tests. september 4-20.
THE STRONG IMPACT OF TOURISM
Tourism is suffering from a strong impact as a result of the pandemic and has fallen by nearly 88% in July and August, the first few months after the reopening of borders.
Nearly 54,000 foreign tourists arrived in July and 50,000 in August, up from 400,000 per month in 2019. To inspire tourism, the Dominican government has presented tourists, until the end of the year, with flexible fitness insurance covering any emergency.
COVID-19 IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
Across the country, the Department of Public Health reported 7 deaths and 494 new instances of COVID-19 on Monday in the more than 24 hours, a number of infections showing a slight downward trend since the pandemic arrived in the country last March. , 108,783 contagions and 2,054 deaths have accumulated in the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican government has almost doubled the number of beds available for COVID-19 since early August, when the fitness formula was subjected to increased tension due to increased infections as a result of economic revival measures.
Currently, another 901 people are hospitalized by COVID-19, of which 226 are admitted to intensive care equipment (ICS) and 124 of them require mechanical ventilation.
The occupancy rate for hospital beds is 26%, while the ICU is at 41% of its total capacity, which lately stands at 562 beds.
Since July 20, the Dominican Republic has reapplied the state of emergency and curfew, whose schedules vary according to the rest of the provinces of the country.
The government also maintains a ban on operating nightclubs, casinos and other activities involving crowds of people, and also has to virtually run the school year.
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