Barbados records two new Covid-19 cases

Two more people tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday after being tested a second time.

The two, a 41-year-old female visitor and a 55-year-old Barbadian woman, arrived on a Virgin Atlantic flight on August 8. They are both asymptomatic.

Meanwhile, two people have recovered from the viral illness and will be discharged from the Harrison Point, St Lucy isolation facility, today.

As a result, while the tally of recorded cases has increased to 150 and recoveries to 121, the number of people in isolation remains 22.

The Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory completed 180 tests yesterday, and a total of 14,217 tests since February 11. BGIS