17 new COVID-19 cases recorded

Seventeen new COVID cases were on Tuesday reported by the Ministry of Health after 303 tests were carried out.

The ministry’s updated COVID-19 dashboard, released yesterday, showed that the new cases were recorded in Region One (1 case), Region Four (5 cases), Region Six (2 cases), Region Nine (7 cases) and Region Ten (2 cases).

The ministry’s dashboard also showed that that 1 person was in the COVID ICU, while 5 were in institutional isolation, and 108 in home isolation.

The country’s death toll remained at 1,281.