SAINT LUCIA RECORDS 92 NEW CASES OF COVID-19

Friday, September 24th 2021, Saint Lucia confirmed 92 new cases of COVID-19. These cases were processed on Thursday September 23, 2021 at the Ezra Long Laboratory from a total of 358 samples. This number of positive cases makes up 25.7% of all the samples processed on that date.

The Ministry of Health also reports 1 new COVID-19 death and 1 new COVID-19 related death, a 78 year old male from the Babonneau district and a 78 year old male from the Babonneau district.

Confirmation was also received of the recovery of 59 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19.

To date, a total of 35, 725 individuals have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and 29, 300 have received the second dose. A total of 8,791 individuals have received the first dose and 1183 individuals have received the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.