There were 18 new positive cases of COVID-19 recorded on Saturday, March 20, from the 422 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. They comprise eight men and 10 women.
Twenty-eight people recovered and were discharged from isolation. The number of cases in isolation is now 182.
The island has recorded 3,551 confirmed cases – 1,699 females and 1,852 males – and 3,330 people have recovered from the virus since March 2020. There have been 39 COVID-19 related deaths.
The public health laboratory has so far completed 136,463 tests.
On Saturday, 902 persons were vaccinated as part of the National Vaccination Programme for COVID-19.
To date, a total of 61,108 vaccinations have been administered – 25,465 men and 35,643 women. (BGIS)
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I am hopeful that sometime whether the future near or distant that someone in the world will admit that closing schools was the worst thing that governments did
In March of 2020, I supported the closure through the end of that academic year because the world did not know what covid19 was
But in knowing that it was a virus that spreads much faster than the flu and only creates problems for people with compromised immune systems, schools should have reopened in full in September 2020
Now, 3 terms are lost, and a hand full of teachers is holding the government and the school system to ransom
We have to live with covid19, everyone says, then we close schools, te me then how to live with it