A 17-year-old is among the country’s latest COVID-19 deaths as 120 new cases of the virus were recorded.
This was disclosed by the Ministry of Health in a press release which stated that the country reported five new deaths which have increased the total COVID-19 fatalities in the country to 587. The deaths were reported on different days as a 70-year-old man from Region Four died on August 15 while the 17-year-old who was also from Region Four passed on August 16.
Three deaths occurred on August 17: two men, an 87-year-old and an 84-year-old both from Region Four and a 63-year-old woman from Region Five.
The 120 new cases that were reported pushed the total number of cases in the country to 23,795. These came after 1,812 tests were done, taking the total number of tests done to date to 248,706.
According to the regional distribution of COVID-19 cases, the majority of new cases were recorded in regions Four and Three with 72 and 24 new infections respectively. There are now 1,068 active cases, 88 of whom are in institutional isolation while 980 are in home isolation.
There are now 15 patients at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit while 25 more persons have recovered from the virus. The total number of recovered cases in the country now stands at 22,125.
