Four more COVID-19 deaths were confirmed by the Ministry of Health (MoH) on Saturday, increasing the country’s death toll from the virus to 281 and making April the deadliest month of the outbreak here.
The Health Ministry said in a statement that the latest fatalities are two women, a 60-year-old from Region Six and a 65-year- old from Region 10, and two men, a 72-year-old and a 42-year old, both from Region Four. They died while receiving care at a public medical facility.
For the month, a total of 46 deaths have been recorded and a total of 13 deaths were recorded last week. Although there is growing public concern about the possible presence of COVID variants, which have caused spikes in many other countries, including neighbouring, the Ministry of Health has not officially confirmed such a development here. It has, however, admitted that the virus has been spreading faster and more persons are dying.
The Health Ministry is currently administering vaccines against COVID to all persons 18 years and above across the country. Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony said that as of Friday over 116,000 persons have been vaccinated.
There has been a steady rise in infections in recent weeks and there was no change in the situation according to the COVID-19 dashboard that was released on Saturday. It confirmed that 152 new COVID-19 infections have been recorded from the testing of 1,760 samples. Eighty-three of the new cases are from Region Four, 30 from Region Three, 12 from Region Six, 8 from Region Ten, 7 from Region Seven, 6 from Region Two and 3 each from Regions One and Five.
The dashboard also showed that there are 16 persons in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, 74 in institutional isolation, 1,529 in home isolation and 11 persons in institutional quarantine. A total of 10,702 persons who were infected with COVID-19 have recovered.
Based on the dashboard from last Sunday to yesterday, a total of 838 cases were recorded from 8,975 tests that were conducted.
