Dr. Manzanero was also asked about the number of COVID positive patients whose health deteriorated so severely, that they were placed on ventilators.
Best reports are that 16 COVID-positive Belizeans who had to be ventilated, all of them, except one, passed away. The only survivor, as far as we are aware, is the 42-year-old doctor from the Western Region. Here's what the Director of Health Services had to say about him and the other patient who was recently taken off the ventilator:
Dr. Marvin Manzanero - Director of Health Services
"Has any intubated patient been successfully extubated? We had 2 persons who were extubated. One person died 48 hours after being extubated of a cardiac condition that happened. And the other person is recovering slowly at home because, as has been described in the literature else, people who recover from COVID-19 have a long recovery process because of disrupted pulmonary function, disrupted cardiac function, and mental situations that patients go through after they have been in an ICU and ventilated."
Later on in the news, we'll share more of the Director's comments from yesterday about how Belizeans living on the Placencia Peninsula been ignoring the 10-day isolation law after being allowed to fly home from abroad.
