SAINT LUCIA RECORDS 46 NEW COVID-19 CASES.

Friday, October 15th 2021, Saint Lucia confirmed a total of 46 new cases of COVID-19. These cases were processed on Thursday, October 14, 2021 at the Ezra Long Laboratory from a total of 284 samples which were collected between October 13 and October 14, 2021. This number of positive cases makes up 16.2% of all the samples processed on that date.

The Ministry of Health also reports one (1) new COVID-19 death, a 42 year old male from the Castries district.

Confirmation was also received of the recovery of 39 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19.

To date, a total of 36,396 individuals have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and 30,461 have received the second dose. A total of 12,367 individuals have received the first dose and 6,743 individuals have received the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.