Four more COVID-19 fatalities along with 258 cases were reported yesterday.
This was disclosed in a Ministry of Health press release which stated that the country’s total fatalities have increased to 744. The deaths were identified as a 69-year-old man from Region Four who died on September 19 and was unvaccinated. Subsequently on September 22, a 66-year-old man from Region Four who was fully vaccinated also died.
On September 23, an 81-year-old woman from Region Three who was partially vaccinated succumbed to the virus and a 58-year-old unvaccinated man from Region Four died on the same date.
The 258 new cases that were recorded have pushed the country’s total number of confirmed cases to 30,444. These came after some 2,062 tests were done. The total number of tests done to date stands at 306,364.
New infections were reported in eight of the ten administrative regions with the large majority of new cases being recorded in regions Four and Three with 151 and 67 new cases respectively. There are now 3,815 active cases, 171 of whom are in institutional isolation while 3,644 are in home isolation.
A total of 37 persons are now patients at the COVID-19 ICU while 146 more persons have recovered from the virus. The country’s total number of recovered cases now stands at 25,848.
