The Ministry of Health (MOH) informs that as of June 01, 2021, five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died. This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 396.
The patients were admitted with COVID-19 like symptoms but died while receiving care at our medical institutions. Samples were taken at the time of admission which subsequently returned positive tests.
The details on the latest fatalities are below:
The country has also recorded 143 new cases of the virus, taking the number of infections since March 2020 to 17,257. Meanwhile, 15,027 persons have recovered.