COVID-19 continued its deadly toll in Barbados, with six people dying in seven days.
September’s positive cases have exploded to 1 286 up to Thursday for an average of 80 cases daily. There are still 14 days left in the month, which has seen double the number of those contracting the illness in August when there were 632 cases, at an average of 20 a day.
The latest victim is a 73-year-old Guyanese man who died at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility in St Lucy on Thursday after six days there, bringing to 57 the number of deaths associated with the virus since it was first detected here in March 2020.
The death was announced along with the news that there were a worrying 110 new cases coming out of the 1 787 tests done by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory on Thursday. (AC)
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