Governor Silvestri 2020-09-29

Summary of Facebook Live Chat by Governor Silvestri at 2020-09-29 06:30

Starts at 02:30

The Spanish transmission can be found here

Transmissions are Monday and Friday.

COVID-19 Testing and Treatment

Cases:

• Health Department release 82
  • 1,387 confirmed cases total
    • 71 new cases
    • 247 recovered
    • 17 deaths confirmed, 8 under investigation
    • 1,123 active cases
• 228 currently outstanding tests
  • Started with 322 pending tests before the press release
  • 94 processed
  • 71 positive
• These results are only PCR tests

Hospitalisation:

• Total of 65 hospitalised patients in Roatan
  • 19 in the hospital
  • 46 in the COVID center
• No information for Guanaja or Utila
• Does not include private hospital numbers as these have not been supplied to the governor

Medical brigade:

• These go door to door to do a medical evaluation for anyone with symptoms
• 66 doctors and nurses for 14 days
  • Roatan municipality is paying for their room and board
  • There are talks to try and extend their presence for 6 more weeks
• Started last week
• Schedule for this week:
  • Tuesday: Balfate in Sandy Bay
  • Tuesday: Juticalpa in Santos Guardiola
  • Wednesday: Polytilly Bight in Santos Guardiola
  • Friday: Santa Elena (Saint Helene) in Santos Guardiola
• Brigades will also go to Utila and Guanaja
• Coxen Hole will not get a brigade as Santos Guardiola is available
• Swamp Hole, Nicaragua and others were done on the weekend

Triage centers

• Oakridge
• Coxen Hole
• French Harbour
• Sandy Bay is not yet fully operational, but should be soon
• Last week met with mayor of Guanaja about setting up one there
• Utila will be addressed soon
• Not setting up something new, extending existing infrastructure
• Reports of people being scared of going to triage for fear of being sent to the mainland.
  • This is false, hospitalisations go to the Roatan hospital or the COVID-19 center in French Harbour

Testing:

• Not available in all the triage centers
• Coxen Hole Santos Guardiola institute is the best place to go on Roatan

Travel and Immigration

Air Transate:

• Not expected to do any more repatriation flights

Driving out of Honduras:

• That’s up to the other countries regulations

General

Reef Disease:

• Aggressive reef disease has arrived in the Bay Islands
• Details here

Children in Phase 2:

• Not sure, will look into it

Fishing tournament freedom of movement:

• Tourists don’t have to abide by the number system