The Health Ministry on Friday reported three more COVID-19 deaths that occurred over the preceding two days along with 77 new cases of the virus.
In a statement, the ministry identified the three fatalities as a 75-year-old man from Region Four, who died on Wednesday, and a 36-year-old man and 66-year-old woman, both from Region Five, who died on Thursday. The deaths took the country’s COVID-19 death toll so far to 489.
Meanwhile, 77 new cases increased the total number of confirmed cases in the country to date to 20,834. The new cases were detected after 1,259 more tests were done.
According to the regional distribution of COVID-19 cases in the ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard, new infections were reported in nine of the ten administrative regions: Region One (7 cases), regions Two and Seven (1 case each), Region Three (24 cases), Region Four (28 cases), regions Five and Nine (3 cases), Region Six (6 cases) and Region Ten with 4 cases.
The dashboard also showed that there are now 1,413 active cases, 87 of which are in institutional isolation while 1,336 are in home isolation. It also showed that 11 persons were patients at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit.
