13 new COVID cases recorded

A total of 13 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded after 70 tests were conducted by the Ministry of Health.

Based on the updated COVID-19 dashboard, released on Friday, the new cases were recorded in Region Three, where there was 1, Region Four, where there were 9, Region Seven, where there was 1 and Region Nine, where there were 2 cases.

The dashboard also showed that two persons were in the COVID Intensive Care Unit, while 9 were in institutional isolation and 123 in home isolation.

The number of deaths from the virus remained at 1,285.