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
- 1,387 confirmed cases total
- 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