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Saint John’s Senior Behavioral Health patients placed in quarantine
All patients at the Senior Behavioral Health department at Saint John Hospital are being placed in quarantine after someone tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a news release from the Leavenworth hospital.
The announcement from the hospital came late Friday.
Leavenworth TImes
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No visitors: KC hospitals ban outsiders, stop elective surgery as coronavirus spreads
Kansas City area hospitals, like others across the country, have banned visitors to keep everyone in their buildings safe from the contagious new coronavirus.
The new rule at the University of Kansas Health System and elsewhere around the metro: No visitors, with few exceptions. Nursing homes y have already banned visitors except in end-of-life situations.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article241379921.html
PERU
President Martín Vizcarra announced this Friday 263 cases of coronavirus in Peruvian territory. In addition, the Ministry of Health (Minsa) confirmed four deaths from COVID-19.
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ECUADOR
The number of deaths from coronavirus in Ecuador increases to 7, with 426 infections
The Secretary of Risk Management of Ecuador warned that in the next few days an increase in positive cases for coronavirus will be seen, because there are many people under suspicion
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Updated on 03/20/2020 at 20:55
Quito [EFE]. The Government of Ecuador reported on Friday that the number of deaths from coronavirus in the country has risen to seven and that there are 426 patients who have tested positive for COVID-19, which is 16 percent more than the day before.
The Secretary of Risk Management, Alexandra Ocles, indicated in a virtual press conference that in the last few hours two people died, both men, the first one was 61 years old and that it corresponded to a so-called “imported case”, as he contracted the illness abroad before returning to the country.
The other deceased is a 48-year-old person who was in asylum in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) under permanent medical surveillance.
In addition, Ocles explained that there are 711 people “suspected” of having contracted the coronavirus and that 1,213 have been placed in an epidemiological fence for having been in the close circle of people infected with the virus.
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PARAGUAY
Five new cases with the Covid-19 in Paraguay, now add up to 18
Asunción, Mar 20 (Prensa Latina) The Paraguayan health authorities confirmed five new cases with Covid-19 today to increase the number of patients to 18 and corroborate the community circulation of the SARS-Cov-2 virus in the country.
The Ministry of Health reported moments ago, via twitter, the death of one of the patients infected by coronavirus. It is the first fatal victim of covid-19, registered by Paraguay. He is a 69-year-old patient, who had been admitted to a private sanitarium in the intensive care unit for several days
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BRAZIL
Until 9:40 am on this Saturday, March 21, the state health secretariats released 986 confirmed cases of a new coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2) in Brazil in 25 states and the Federal District. According to official data, there are 11 deaths in Brazil, nine in São Paulo and two in Rio de Janeiro.
In the afternoon of last Friday, the Ministry of Health updated the figures informing that Brazil has a total of 904 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 11 deaths.
According to information from the ministry, there is already community transmission in some areas of the country. The folder said that there is this type of transmission in two states, three capitals and a region of one state in the South. Community or sustained transmission is that when it is not possible to trace the source of the infection, indicating that the virus circulates among people who have not traveled or had contact with anyone who has been abroad.
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Other Latin American countries:
Colombia - 158 cases
Uruguay- 110 cases
Chile - 537 cases