SIX NEW cases of hantavirus have brought the total in the province of Los Santos to 61, with 41 of them in Tonosi.

Two of the patients (a 72-year-old from Pedasi and a 22-year-old from Tonosí)  have developed the Cardiopulmonary Syndrome and are on assisted ventilation in a hospital intensive care unit.

Among the other new cases are two children under 9 years of age, one from Las Tablas and one from Isla Caña.

Carlos Muñoz, regional coordinator of epidemiology said that these patients with hantavirus fever are coping very well.