COVID-19 cases reach 72 in Barbados

(Barbados Nation) One more Barbadian has tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The new case is an 84-year-old woman, who had contact with a known case who travelled abroad.

Two more people were declared free of COVID-19 and released from isolation yesterday, after testing negative for the virus twice.

Barbados has to date recorded 72 positive cases of COVID-19 out of 839 tests done since February 11. Thirty-four of those tests were carried out yesterday.

The two newly-recovered people bring the number of recoveries to 13. The number of deaths remains at four. There are now 55 people in isolation.