The figures are encouraging for the Prime Minister’s announcement of his intention to lift the restrictions soon. Covid 19 is doing less and less severe cases, the fatality rate is steadily decreasing as are the daily positive cases.
119 local positive cases in one week and 59 imported cases. The country totals 21 with admissions for the week with 14 cases in regional hospitals and 7 at New ENT Hospital in Vacoas, of which 1 is under observation and 6 on oxygen, of which 2 fully vaccinated, 2 partially vaccinated and two unvaccinated.
Vaccination is progressing with 1,008,236 for the first dose, 974,896 for the second, 628,464 for Booster Dose I, including 240,187 at Johnson & Johnson, 8,810 at Sinopharm, 2,825 at Astra Zeneca, 263,024 at Pfizer and 99,225 at Moderna. For the Booster dose II, 4513 people were inoculated, of which 4433 were Pfizer, 75 were Moderna and 5 were Johnson & Johnson. For the adolescent campaign, 75,119 received the first dose of Pfizer and 68,894 the second.
In Rodrigues, 73.03% of the population received the first dose, 72.34% the second and 14,393 the third.
