Luckily Panama never reach anywhere near our Health care system capacity.  As of Tuesday, we had 6,021 confirmed cases with only 266 hospitalizations of which only 89 in ICU and over 5,000 in self quarantine.  We have lost 167 souls but that number and the confirmed daily positive tests cases has slowed, thank God!

Here is the reporting done by Osvaldo Rodriguez Martinez for La Prensa.

The announcement that Panamanian authorities are studying the gradual lifting of the mandatory quarantine and reactivate the country under strict sanitary measures has caused at present many reactions in the society.

‘The economic team along with the health team gave me draft 1 for the gradual reopening and return to normal. Decisions based on scientific evidence and quarantine are giving results,’ President Laurentino Cortizo posted on Twitter.

Without defining dates, sectors or companies, Health Minister Rosario Turner said on Tuesday during the daily public briefing on the health crisis in the country that, ‘we have reached a goal, but this goal is not to end quarantine, but to continue to normal.’

The announcement changed the course of the official speech on warnings about the seriousness of the situation in coming weeks, in which the mathematical studies presented unflattering scenarios and insisted on the necessary control over the infection rate to overcome the pandemic.

The curve of new cases per day had its ‘peak’ on April 8 when 279 people were reported as positive, while the following days, increases varied below that figure, even on Tuesday, 163 people were tested positive and the infection rate declined.