Over 400 people screened for COVID-19

Posted: Saturday, April 11, 2020. 7:26 am CST.

By BBN Staff: The Office of Director of Health Services informed that as of 3 pm yesterday, the Ministry of Health had screened 446 people.

Four hundred thirty-six of those tests resulted in negative cases while 10 returned positive.

Of those positive cases, 2 patients are from Corozal, 4 from the Belize District and 4 from the Cayo District. Seven of the positive cases are men and three are females.

Belize has now registered 2 COVID-19 deaths.

The ‘under investigation’ numbers are the amount of swabs received from the initial mapping exercises done and random samples from across the country.

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