COVID-19 UPDATE: One new case; three recoveries

​There was one positive test result for COVID-19 among the 302 tests done by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory yesterday.

​The new case is a 26-year-old Barbadian woman who arrived on Jet Blue on August 29, and was positive for COVID-19 when retested yesterday.

​Meanwhile, three people will leave the isolation facility at Harrison Point, St. Lucy, today after recovering from the viral illness.

​Eighteen people remain in isolation; 153 have recovered; and the tally of cases recorded in Barbados has increased to 178, comprising 92 females and 86 males.

​The laboratory has completed 17,979 tests. (BGIS)