One new COVID-19 fatality was yesterday recorded along with 44 new cases.
The fatality was identified as a 61-year-old man from Region Four. The COVID death toll is now at 138.
The new cases were recorded out of 449 tests that were done during the last round of testing which appears to be the highest number of tests done in a single day. The total number of persons tested in the country now stands at 23,552.
The new cases were recorded in seven of the country’s ten administrative regions: 31 cases were recorded in Region Four, 3 in Region One and 4 in Region Ten.
There are now 895 active cases in the country, 56 of which are currently in institutional isolation and 839 in home isolation. Eleven persons are in the country’s COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit. There are 29 persons in institutional quarantine. Some 5 more persons recovered from the virus increasing the total number of recoveries in the country to 3,616.
