The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday announced that 10 more persons who were infected with COVID-19 have died, taking the country’s pandemic death toll to 669.
In a statement, the ministry identified the deceased as seven women and three men, ranging in age from 50 to 85, who succumbed on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Eight of them were from Region Four, while the others were from Region Two and Region Three.
According to the ministry, the patients were admitted with COVID-19-like symptoms but died while receiving care at the ministry’s medical institutions. Samples were taken at the time of admission which subsequently returned positive tests.
Meanwhile, the ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard showed that 218 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed, from 2, 043 tests done. Of the new cases recorded, 123 are from Region Four, 34 from Region Three, 31 from Region Two, 11 from Region Five, 4 from Region Seven, 3 from Region Six, 2 from Region One and 5 each from regions Nine and Ten.
The dashboard also showed that there were 30 persons in the Intensive Care Unit, 143 in institutional isolation, 2,624 in home isolation and 17 in institutional quarantine.
