Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Monday that 309 people have died of pneumonia since January in the Central American country, 87 more people than in the same period last year, but that only some deaths were linked to the coronavirus.
FILE PHOTO: A patient walks with a relative after a consultation at the Aleman-Nicaraguense hospital, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Managua, Nicaragua April 29, 2020. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
Health workers have cast doubt on these figures, noting that hospital wards are packed with patients suffering respiratory problems and that Ortega’s government has not imposed strict measures to contain the outbreak. “Some of them have to do with the pandemic, there are many deaths due to pneumonia as well,” he said on national television. He did not address the cause for the rise in pneumonia, which can produce symptoms similar to the coronavirus.
There were 215 people who died from pneumonia in the same time frame in 2018, and 289 the year before that.
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