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August 12, 2020

No hydroxychloroquine has arrived in country yet, DHS warns about promoting certain medicines and Russian vaccine prematurely

The malaria drug has been hailed by some as relieving symptoms of COVID-19, but the literature has been muddled and Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health [...]
August 12, 2020

Dr. Marvin Manzanero: COVID-19 patient taken to KHMH due to respiratory distress

The patient now in Belize City was hospitalized since Tuesday at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan.
August 12, 2020

Employers discouraged from sending home employees on quarantine

A PCR test is not required to show up to work and quarantine rules do apply - tests are typically done 2 weeks after quarantine starts.
August 12, 2020

From contact tracing to containment and the limits of the Belize health system

While Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital already has six ventilators and will get six more by the end of this week, it is the only facility with [...]
August 12, 2020

10 health care workers exposed to COVID-19, 7 other frontline workers

Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services, confirmed that a doctor at Karl Heusner Memorial hospital tested positive but does not appear to have caught the [...]
August 12, 2020

Ask The Experts: Belize goes past 200 COVID-19 cases

Up to Sunday, 42 positive cases were recorded from the samples tested over the weekend.
August 12, 2020

All-staff memo confirms KHMH staff has COVID-19

Hospital CEO Michelle Hoare writes that the person was exposed outside the facility and that the hospital has initiated contact tracing in the facility.
August 12, 2020

Opposition Leader: Delay school re-opening “until children are safe”

He told the audience at the Princess Hotel and virtually that the Ministry of Education must assure itself that the teachers have the tools they need [...]