COVID-19 UPDATE: Five new cases; one recovery

Barbados has recorded five more cases of COVID-19.  The positive results came from the 322 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Laboratory yesterday.

Those testing positive for the viral illness are a 44-year-old female visitor, and a 55-year-old male visitor, who arrived on an American Airlines flight on November 21 and 26, respectively.  The other three are male visitors aged 46, 43 and 30, who came into the island on Caribbean Airlines on November 27.  All cases were asymptomatic.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 275 – 142 females and 133 males.

Meanwhile, one person will leave the isolation facility at Harrison Point today, which brings the total number of recoveries to 250.  There are now 18 persons in isolation.

The laboratory has completed 46,638 tests since February 2020. (BGIS)