Governor Silvestri 2020-10-02

Summary of Facebook Live Chat by Governor Silvestri at 2020-10-02 07:30

Starts at 02:00

The Spanish transmission can be found here

Transmissions are Tuesday and Friday.

COVID-19 Testing and Treatment

Cases:

• These are only PCR, it does not cover rapid testing or those who don’t get tested. The actual numbers are significantly higher than this.
• Health Department release 84 from Thursday
  • Changes
    • 10 new cases
  • 1,435 confirmed cases total
    • 276 recovered
    • 26 deaths total
    • 1,133 active cases
• Tests
  • 154 pending before the update
  • 12 processed
  • 142 still pending

Hospitalisation:

• Total of 70 hospitalised patients in Roatan
  • 15 in the hospital
  • 55 in the COVID center
• No official information for Guanaja or Utila
  • Unofficial information says there have been 24 confirmed cases on Utila.
• Does not include private hospital numbers as these have not been supplied to the governor

Medical Brigades:

• Today is West End and Santa Elena (which may be delayed due to rain)
• Reports are generated and could be added to these communications

Ferry:

• Galaxy created a COVID-19 section for their ferry in order to move COVID-19 patients in an affordable manner to the mainland in emergencies

Door to door testing:

• You can refuse to take the test
• Transcribers note: please take the test

Reducing death rate:

• This was why the COVID-19 treatment centers and medical brigades were formed
• The biggest problem right now is people taking too long to get to the hospital or COVID-19 treatment center. This is why they’re doing the medical brigade.
• Are seeing people who are 14+ days into infection before they turn up, which is very dangerous.

Travel and Immigration

Travel tests:

• Rapid tests will now be accepted for entering Honduras and those using them will not need to quarantine.
• Note: A previous version of this summary incorrectly stated that this change was for the Bay Islands only. This is incorrect, the Honduran federal requirements changed to accept a rapid test instead of a PCR.