SAINT LUCIA RECORDS 68 NEW COVI

Thursday September 30th 2021, Saint Lucia confirmed a total of 68 new cases of COVID-19. These cases were processed on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at the Ezra Long Laboratory from a total of 373 samples which were collected between September 28 and 29, 2021. This number of positive cases makes up 18.2% of all the samples processed on that date.

The Ministry of Health also reports one (1) new COVID-19 death and one (1) new COVID-19 related death, a 44 year old male from the Castries district and a s a 76 year old male from the Micoud district.

Confirmation was also received of the recovery of 57 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19.

To date, a total of 35,992 individuals have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and 29,633 have received the second dose. A total of 9,980 individuals have received the first dose and 2,905 individuals have received the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.