SAINT LUCIA RECORDS 55 NEW CASES OF COVID-19

Friday September 17th 2021, Saint Lucia confirmed 55 new cases of COVID-19. These cases were processed on Thursday September 16, 2021 at the Ezra Long Laboratory from a total of 255 samples. This number of positive cases makes up 21.6% of all the samples processed on that date.

The Ministry of Health also reports two new COVID-19 deaths, a 41 year old male from the Babonneau district and a 56 year old male from the Castries district.

Confirmation was also received of the recovery of 11 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19.

To date, a total of 35, 488 individuals have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID[1]19 vaccine and 28, 910 have received the second dose. A total of 7, 368 individuals have received the first dose and 94 individuals have received the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.