Healthcare in Puerto Rico

Spread of COVID-19 in Puerto Rico

Current incidence in the week ending 01/28/2023: 205.7 new infections per 100,000 population

Since the beginning of the pandemic until January 28th, 2023, a total of 1,076,730 infected people and 5,653 deaths have been reported in Puerto Rico.

The total of 1,076,730 infected people currently represents 37.64 percent of the total population. The number of new infections during the seven days preceding January 28th, 2023, was 5,885, for a 7-day incidence of 205.7 cases per 100,000 population. In the same week, 34 people died from (or with) COVID-19. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, this results in a mortality rate of about 0.5 percent in Puerto Rico.

Current vaccination status

According to official WHO data, a total of 7.75 million vaccine doses have been administered as of January 20th, 2023. More recent data are not yet available to WHO. There are 2.90 million people who have received at least one vaccination (101.4 percent). The booster vaccination was received by 1.79 million people (62.6 percent).

2.68 million of these are considered fully vaccinated in Puerto Rico (= 93.7 percent).
This makes Puerto Rico one of the best-supplied countries in the world. The vaccination rate is higher in 7 countries.

The data (apart from arithmetical rounding) are taken unchanged from WHO publications. Vaccination rates of over 100 percent are an indication that people were also counted who had been vaccinated in Puerto Rico but came from another country. Especially in times of vaccine shortage, many people have been vaccinated in other countries.

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we update the worldwide case numbers daily. A list of all infections and deaths by country can be found on our COVID-19 virus topic page.