Panama regains control of Covid-19 pandemic

In March, the country regained control of the Covid-19 pandemic, since, during the last two epidemiological weeks, the percentage of test positivity has been below 5%.

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers that a 5% positivity or less, keeps the virus under control. Something that has not been observed since mid-December 2021, when the fourth wave conditioned by the s Omicron variant began.

In the epidemiological week (March 13 to 19) 1,854 cases were reported, an average of 265 new infections per day. This represents a decrease, when compared to the previous week (March 6 to 12), when the average number of cases was 282 per day.

 New deaths,  averaged three per day,  the same as the previous week. these are positive figures for specialists like Arturo Rebollón and Eduardo Ortega, agree that there should not be a fifth wave or rebound in cases associated with the opening of schools on March 7.

For Ortega, there is a high rate of vaccination, so the start of classes should not have a negative influence on the pandemic, while Rebollón considers that attention must be paid to the communities, in which the sources of Covid-19 contagion are reported, so that they do not bring the virus to schools.