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Tuesday 23rd March 2021.
March 23, 2021
According to the epidemiological report of the Ministry of Health (Minsa) of this Monday, March 22, in the last 24 hours there have been 8 new deaths, totaling 6,052 accumulated deaths, for a fatality of 1.7%. In Panama, 339,961 recovered patients are counted. While the active cases today, Monday, total 5,200. In addition, 222 new positive cases were detected, for a cumulative total of 351,213. According to the Minsa, 4,486 tests were applied and a percentage of positivity of 4.9% is maintained, one of the lowest registered to date. Regarding ward hospitalizations, it was revealed that there are 616 patients confined and another 99 are in intensive care units .
The President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo, called on the population to take care of themselves to avoid another outbreak of Covid-19 cases, which would lead to the need to analyze a new closure. “Look what is happening in Europe. There are already countries that are closing again and that is an option that I would no longer like to have to make”, said Cortizo this Monday, at an official ceremony in Pacora.
According to the Covid-19 vaccination schedule of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), the process to immunize the elderly population would resume next Monday, April 5.
With the lifting of the total quarantine on weekends, on March 6, and the end of the sanitary fences, the movement of bathers to the beaches and rivers to different parts of the country exceeded the figure of 28 thousand. According to a report from the National Civil Protection System (Sinaproc), in the last three weekends, 28,970 people visited these places of recreation.
The plenary table of the dialogue by the Social Security Fund (CSS) reached a consensus this Monday, March 22, regarding the percentage of votes that will be required to approve the methodology for discussing proposals to save the pension program.
The Appeals Court went into recess on the afternoon of this Monday, after the hearing in which it will be decided whether or not the Public Ministry should resort to civil proceedings to collect debt owed by Odebrecht to the State, as part of the Collaboration agreement agreed within the investigations into the bribes that the construction company distributed in Panama.
The election of the new Procurator or Procuradora de la Nación was out of the agenda of priorities of the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo . This Monday, Cortizo announced that they are “analyzing” when to start the process of election and appointment of the new head of the Public Ministry, but “I do not have it as one of the highest priorities at this precise moment.”
The plenary session of the National Assembly ratified this Monday, March 22, the appointment of Juan Antonio Ducruet as the new director of the Institute of National Aqueducts and Sewers (Idaan) .