In a press conference, the national director of Epidemiology, Francisco Durán, specified that seven people died Wednesday as a result of this pandemic.

Currently, 5,448 patients with the ailment are admitted to hospitals in the Caribbean country.

Meanwhile, the total number of deaths from Covid-19 totals 701 and the number of infected since March 2020 has risen to 112,714, Duran said.

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