TWENTYTHREE NEW CASES TODAY - 10 FROM FLIGHTS/REPATRIATIONS

 Filenews 5 October 2020 

The Ministry of Health informs that, according to an update received today by the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit from contracting laboratories, a total of 2,736 laboratory diagnoses identified 23 new cases of COVID-19 disease.

In detail, virus-positive individuals emerged as follows:

• Of 100 samples taken through the process of tracing contacts of already confirmed cases, 5 cases were identified.
• Of 1,756 samples taken as part of a passenger and repatriated check, 10 cases were identified.
• Of 162 samples taken from the Microbiological Laboratories of the General Hospitals, 2 cases were identified.
• Of 488 samples taken through a private initiative, 4 cases were identified.
• Of 200 samples taken under the programme of referrals by Personal Physicians and special teams control through the Public Health Clinics, 2 cases were identified.

In addition, the laboratory examination was carried out for 30 samples taken under the programme carried out by the Ministry of Justice and Public Order to check the staff working on the premises of the Courts laboratory tests, without the detection of a case.

Therefore, and on the basis of the data so far, the total number of cases amounts to 1,847.

In addition, eight people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus at Famagusta General Hospital, three of them in the Increased Care Unit. Two patients remain intubated in the Intensive Care Unit of nicosia General Hospital. In the other hospitals, a COVID-19 patient is hospitalized.

Source: eyenews