Thirteen new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday after 239 more persons were tested for the virus and for the month of December there were 13 deaths. According to the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard, the 13 new cases pushed the total number in the country to 6,332. It also showed the total number of persons tested to date in the country at 38,257.
A look at the regional distribution of confirmed cases shows that the new cases were recorded in four of the ten administrative regions. Two new cases were recorded in Region One, three in Region Three and four cases each in regions Four and Five.
The country now has 343 active cases, six of whom are in institutional isolation while 337 are in home isolation. Five persons remain patients at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit. Eleven more persons have recovered from the virus increasing the total number of recovered cases to 5,820.
