COVID ICU empty

For perhaps the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold here two years ago, there are no patients in the ICU at the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal.

The Ministry of Health’s dashboard yesterday reported there were three new cases of COVID-19. The death toll remains at 1228.

By comparison, on April 17 last year, there were 120 new cases of COVID and 13 persons were in the ICU. At that stage, there were only 268 deaths meaning that in the ensuing year nearly 1,000 persons succumbed to COVID.