Twenty-four new cases of COVID-19 reported

Twenty-four new cases of COVID-19 were recorded by the Ministry of Health yesterday with 77 recoveries listed while the death toll remains at 123.

This is according to the Ministry’s dashboard yesterday. The new cases recorded increased the total number of positive confirmed cases in the country to 4,098. These cases were recorded in eight of the administrative regions; one in Region One, four in Region Three, three in Region Four, one in Region Five, one in Region Six, one in Region Eight, one in Region Nine and two in Region Ten.

The current active cases in the country are now 810, of which 78 are in institutional isolation and 732 are in home isolation. The total amount of persons who have undergone testing for the virus nationwide since the initial outbreak in March stands at 19,009. Seventy-one more persons have recovered from the virus which has increased the total number of recoveries to 3,154.