GOVERNOR Ralph DLG Torres on Thursday renewed his declaration of a state of public health emergency and continued declaration of a state of significant emergency establishing response, quarantine, and preventive Covid-19 measures.
Ralph DLG Torres
He likewise renewed his order directing the CNMI Homeland Security and Emergency Management Office to undertake necessary Covid-19 containment measures and emergency directives to protect the health and safety of the public through the CNMI Covid-19 Task Force and in partnership with the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.
These orders will remain in effect for 30 days, or until Saturday, March 13, 2021.
“Covid-19 continues to pose a significant and imminent threat of harm to the community, environment and people of the CNMI and thus emergency declarations are necessary to respond, quarantine and ensure the prevention of or containment of Covid-19 in the CNMI,” the governor said in his executive order.
To date, there have been over 27 million positive cases reported in the United States, 471,000 of which resulted in fatalities.
In the CNMI, since March 28, 2020 there had been 134 cases of Covid-19 as of Thursday with one individual in isolation.
Of the 134 cases, 108 were detected through travel screening, 10 through community-screening and 16 through contact tracing. There had been two fatalities in March and April 2020.
When the governor renewed his executive order and emergency declaration last month, there had been over 22 million positive cases reported in the United States, of which over 375,000 resulted in fatalities.
At the time, the CNMI had 128 cases of Covid-19, of which 102 were detected through travel screening, 10 through community-screening and 16 through contact tracing.
As of Wednesday, the CNMI had administered 12,530 of 29,650 delivered doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
