Seven more COVID-19 fatalities were yesterday recorded, increasing the death toll for the month so far to 39.
This was announced by the Ministry of Health in a press release where it noted that the seven deaths occurred in the space of two days. The four persons that passed on June 13th were identified as a 75- year-old woman from Region 10, an 84-year-old man and a 66-year-old man both from Region Four and a 72-year-old man from Region Three.
The following day a 70-year-old man from Region 10, a 51-year-old man from Region Two and a 66-year- old woman from Region Three succumbed. As a result the country’s death toll from the virus now stands at 437. The health ministry stated that these patients were admitted with COVID-19-like symptoms and died while receiving care at medical institutions.
Meanwhile, some 84 new cases of the virus were reported thus increasing the total number in the country to 18,530. These came after some 1,251 more tests were done, increasing the total number of tests to date to 171,246.
The new cases were reported in eight regions with Regions Four, Six and Three seeing the majority with 30, 21 and 18 cases respectively. There are now 1,490 active cases, 112 of whom are in institutional isolation while another 1,378 are in home isolation.
Some 22 persons are in the COVID-19 ICU even as 88 more persons have recovered from the virus, increasing the total number of recovered cases to 16,401.
