The data of the Health Surveillance Directorate of the aforementioned portfolio indicates that this amount represents an increase of 441 new positives compared to the previous week, when 5,126 patients with this disease were registered, due to the SARS-CoV coronavirus. -2, which arrived in Costa Rica on March 6, 2020.
They also confirmed that between the 12th and 18th of this month, 15 people died of Covid-19, a little more than two people per day and one less compared to the 16 people recorded in the seventh epidemiological week of this year.
The report states that the daily average of hospitalizations last week was 207, 190 of them on the ward and 17 in intensive care units (ICU).
This constitutes an increase compared to the seventh epidemic week, when the average number of hospitalizations was 194, of whom 181 were in the ward and 13 in intensive care, according to the official report.
Since May 30, 2022, Salud has not submitted the daily report on Covid-19, a fact attributed to the cyberattack that the Costa Rican Social Security Fund – responsible for public health in Costa Rica – suffered a day later.
This cyber attack caused massive damage to their digital systems and the provision of their services.
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