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 416. The patients were admitted with COVID-19 like symptoms but died while receiving care at medical institutions. Samples were taken at the time of admission which subsequently returned positive tests, the Ministry said.
The Ministry has also reported the addition of 87 new cases, taking the number of confirmed cases to 17,805.
Seventeen persons are in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 95 in institutional isolation, 1,649 in home isolation, and three in institutional quarantine.
The regional breakdown of confirmed cases is as follows:
Region One – 1,154
Region Two – 490
Region Three – 2,070
Region Four – 8,412
Region Five – 602
Region Six – 1,209
Region Seven – 1,228
Region Eight – 370
Region Nine – 1,025
Region 10 – 1,245
