Elderly patient succumbs to COVID-19

Barbados has recorded another COVID-19 related death, the first in nearly two months.

Sources have confirmed that the latest victim, a 79-year-old, passed away at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility in the early hours of Thursday morning.

The latest death brings the total number to 48. The last patient to die from the viral illness was a 67-year-old Barbadian woman with co-morbidities on May 17.

Efforts to reach Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George were unsuccessful.

More details as they become available. (kareemsmith@barbadostoday.bb)