WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao has added three more deaths to the total as a result of the COVID-19 infection. One of the three was admitted to the Curaçao Medical Center (CMC), the other two were at home and no longer contagious.
None of the three deaths had been vaccinated, the government says in the daily update of the corona figures. The number of Covid-19 fatalities in Curaçao has increased from 127 to 130. From Tuesday to yesterday morning, four new Covid patients were admitted to the CMC. There are now 21 patients with Covid-19 in hospital, five of whom require intensive care. The hospital's intensive care unit (IC) has sixteen beds.
CMC spokesperson Germaine Gibbs says the hospital has already scaled up with extra covid beds in the ward, without further consequences for regular care and appointments at the outpatient clinics.
The decision to make more beds available for covid care is complicated. Mrs. Gibbs says it takes deliberation. "We can make up to 130 beds available within the hospital, including 40 to 46 IC beds," says Gibbs. “But the more we scale up, the greater the chance that elective care will become a problem.”
Yesterday there were 78 positive cases out of 2,109 test results. Of these, at least 6 infections have been designated as imported. This means that it concerns someone who has traveled to Curaçao. A striking number of people were able to come out of isolation and were cured or declared virus-free: 136. The number of active cases fell from 607 to 548 as a result.