BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - AFTER reporting an initial caseload of 155, health officials in St. Lucia on Tuesday (Mar. 2) announced that 234 more positive cases of the Coronavirus were confirmed on the island.
The Ministry of Health and Wellness noted that the numbers were from a batch of 821 samples taken during the period of February 12 to March 1, 2021, and those samples were processed on February 28, 2021 and March 1, 2021.
St. Lucia, like several other territories, has seen significant community spread of the virus and a backlog of tests that were carried out. The increase in numbers was from the last batch of the backlog of cases, the Ministry reported.
The individuals were assessed and tested for COVID-19 at various community respiratory clinics and, in keeping with the COVID-19 testing protocol, they were placed in home quarantine by health practitioners while awaiting their test results.
The new cases bring the total number of cases diagnosed on the island to date to 3,779 with 670 cases being active.
There was a glimmer of bright light as 27 people who were diagnosed with COVID-19 were deemed to have recovered, bringing the total number of active cases in-country to 670.
The Ministry of Health also stated that there was one COVID-19 related death, bringing the number to 37.
According to the Ministry of Health and Wellness, the individual is a 65-year-old male from the Castries district with underlying medical illnesses, who was was in care at the time of his passing.
