Nine new COVID infections recorded

Nine persons have been infected with COVID-19, the results of 449 new tests have shown.

The new cases were recorded from Region Four (three cases) and Region six (six cases), taking the total number of COVID-19 infections recorded locally since March 2020 to 71,431.

Meanwhile, there are no patients in the ICU; however, two persons remain in institutional isolation and 30 persons are in home isolation.

Thus far, 70,118 patients have recovered from the virus but 1,281 people have died.