Five more unvaccinated persons died from COVID-19 on September 24, taking the country’s death toll to 754.
The latest fatalities also mean that for the month of September, 129 persons died – the highest number of deaths recorded in a single month since March 2020.
The Ministry of Health in a statement revealed that all of the patients died while receiving medical care at facilities. The details on the persons who died are as follows;
Meanwhile, a total of 211 new COVID cases were recorded on Friday from 1,805 tests, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 30, 907.
The cases were recorded in the following regions; Region One (16 cases), Region Two (23 cases), Region Three (43 cases), Region Four (89 cases), Region Five (17 cases), Region Six (five cases), Region Seven (four cases), Region Nine (seven cases) and Region Ten (seven cases).
There are 35 patients in the COVID-19 ICU at the Infectious Diseases Hospital; 180 patients are in institutional isolation and 3,692 patients are in home isolation.
To date, 26,246 people have recovered from the virus.
