COVID-19 UPDATE: Four new cases; three recoveries

​Four more people have tested positive for COVID-19, after undergoing second tests.

​They are a 31-year-old Barbadian man, who arrived on American Airlines on November 22; a 45-year-old male visitor, who came in on an American Airlines flight on November 21; a 47-year-old-male visitor, who arrived on November 20 via British Airways; and a 19-year-old female visitor, who arrived on November 20 on an American Airlines flight. They were all asymptomatic.

​The cases were identified out of the 288 tests conducted yesterday by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. This pushes the tally of confirmed cases to date to 270 – 141 females and 129 males, and the number of people in isolation to 14.

​Meanwhile, three persons will leave isolation today, bringing the number of recoveries to 249.

​To date, the laboratory has conducted 46,316 tests. (NP/BGIS)