SAINT LUCIA RECORDS 109 NEW CASES OF COVID-19

Thursday September 23rd 2021, Saint Lucia confirms a total of 109 new cases of COVID-19. These cases were processed on Wednesday September 22, 2021 at the Ezra Long Laboratory from a total of 454 samples. This number of positive cases makes up 24.0% of all the samples processed on that date.

The Ministry of Health also reports twelve new COVID-19 deaths. All of these deaths occurred during the period September 5, 2021 to September 20, 2021.

Confirmation was also received of the recovery of 159 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19.

To date, a total of 35, 695 individuals have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and 29, 229 have received the second dose. A total of 8, 597 individuals have received the first dose and 971 individuals have received the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.