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DEATHS from COVID-19 increased by eight over the weekend, bringing the country’s toll to 338 since the start of the pandemic.
Five deaths were recorded on Saturday August 21 while three were recorded on Friday August 20, the health ministry said.
Health officials also said an additional 424 cases were recorded between last Thursday and Saturday, bringing the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 17,386 since the start of the pandemic. Of this figure, 3,200 cases are active.
In Saturday’s dashboard, which was released last night, officials also said that a case previously reported as the first for Ragged Island has now been reclassified as a New Providence case.
“The Department of Health advises that due to contact tracing efforts, the COVID-19 positive case previously reported on August 19, 2021 for Ragged Island was found to be from New Providence.
“As a result, this case has been reclassified as the total confirmed COVID-19 cases for New Providence, and that number now stands at 13,039,” the Department of Health said.
Yesterday, ahead of the Department of Health’s update, residents of Ragged Island expressed skepticism to The Tribune that there was a confirmed case on the island, saying they were unaware of any person with the virus. They also said the community is so small that it would be hard to miss it if there is a positive case.
However, the virus is spreading to other family islands with data showing 10 new cases recorded for Long Island on August 20.
Of the 108 new cases on the August 21 dashboard, 91 are in New Providence; five are in Grand Bahama; two are in Abaco; one is in Bimini & Cat Cay; seven are in Eleuthera; one is in Exuma; and one is in Andros.
Meanwhile, deaths recorded on Friday include a 63-year-old man from New Providence who died on August 18; a 44-year-old New Providence man and a 52-year-old New Providence woman who both died on August 19.
The five deaths recorded on Saturday are also all residents of New Providence. They include a 55-year-old man who died on August 4; a 60-year-old man who died on August 6; a 55-year-old man who died on August 9; a 48-year-old woman who died on August 13; and a 56-year-old man who died on August 18.
It comes after 14 new deaths from COVID-19 were recorded on August 18.
At the last report, 148 people were hospitalized for the disease.
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