ELEVEN NEW CASES TODAY

 Filenews 21 August 2020

Eleven new cases of coronavirus out of a total of 3,201 laboratory tests, the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit of the Ministry of Health announced today.

In detail, virus-positive individuals emerged as follows:

• Of 140 samples taken through the process of tracing contacts of already confirmed cases, 5 cases were identified.
• Of 1,178 samples taken as part of a passenger and repatriated check, 3 cases were identified.
• Of 28 samples taken as part of the referral program by Personal Physicians and special teams control through the Public Health Clinics, 1 case was identified.
• Of 131 samples taken from the Microbiological Laboratories of the General Hospitals, 1 case was identified.
• Of 839 samples taken through a private initiative, 1 case was identified.

The 11 new cases resulted as follows:

• 5 x tracing, of which 1 through a private initiative:

1. The first person is the spouse of a case announced on 19/8. They had a recent trip to Slovenia and Serbia. No symptoms
2. The 2nd person took the test privately and is contacted by the patient's family environment of the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre announced yesterday. He's got symptoms. Both are contact.
3. The 3rd person is from the family environment of cases announced one on 18/8 and the 2nd yesterday.
4. The other 2 people are contacts from the family environment of other cases.

• 1 x private initiative: This is a person who manifested symptomatology on 20/8 and took the test privately on 21/8.
• 1 x Microbiological Laboratories of the General Hospitals: This is a person who has had symptoms since 14/8 and visited THEP Larnaca on 19/8 with shortness of breath. He was taken to the reference hospital.
• 1 x referral by a Personal Physician to the Public Health Clinics: This is a person who returned from Thessaloniki on 18/8 and on 19/8 had symptoms. He was referred by his personal physician and took the test on 20/8.

• 3 x flights:

1. One person is a Cypriot who returned from Mykonos on 20/8.
2. The 2nd person is Cypriot who returned from Corfu via Athens on 20/8.
3. The third person is a foreigner who came from Budapest on 20/8.

In addition, 885 laboratory diagnoses were carried out from samples taken as part of the random random sampling of 10,000 subjects, without the detection of a case.

Based on the data so far, the total number of positive cases is 1,406.

In addition, two COVID-19 patients are being treated in a ward at Famagusta General Hospital, while one patient is being treated intubated in the Intensive Care Unit of nicosia General Hospital.

Source: eyenews/AFP