The Ministry of Health yesterday reported five more deaths as a result of COVID-19 along with 252 new cases of the virus.
This information was disclosed in a press release by the ministry which also stated that the country’s total fatalities as a result of the virus now stand at 749. The deaths occurred over a period of two days. On September 23, a 70-year-old man from Region Four and three women: a 51-year-old from Region Four, a 44- year-old from Region Three, and a 59-year-old from Region Four passed away. The other death occurred on September 24 and was identified as a 55-year-old from Region Three. All five individuals died while receiving care at medical institutions and all were unvaccinated.
Meanwhile, the 252 new cases increased the country’s total confirmed cases to 30,696. These came after 2,062 more tests were done, and pushed the total number of tests done to date to 308,426.
New infections were recorded in nine of the ten administrative regions with regions Four, Ten, and Three, seeing the majority of cases with 139, 47 and 40 new cases respectively. There are now 3,775 active cases, 183 of which are in institutional isolation while 3,592 are in home isolation.
There are currently 33 persons in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit while 291 more persons have recovered from the virus. The country’s total recovered cases now stands at 26,139.
