The Ministry of Health yesterday revealed that an 82-year-old woman from Region Ten who was infected with COVID-19 has died.
According to a statement by the Ministry, the woman died at her home. When she was taken to a medical facility she was tested for the virus and the results returned positive. The death toll now stands at 182.
Meanwhile, according to the daily COVID-19 dashboard, 51 new cases were confirmed yesterday increasing the total number of positive cases recorded since March 2020 to 8092. Thirty-eight of the new cases are from Region Four, 5 from Region Ten, 3 from Region Seven, 1 from Region Eight and 2 each from Region Three and Nine. These cases were from 407 tests done yesterday.
The dashboard also revealed that there are now 8 persons in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 29 in institutional isolation, 749 in home isolation and 32 in institutional quarantine.
