The Min­istry of Health is record­ing three (3) new deaths from COVID-19 in its lat­est clin­i­cal up­date.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry, as at 4pm on Fri­day 9 Oc­to­ber 2020, the Min­istry records a to­tal of 89 deaths from COVID-19, three more than the to­tal record­ed in its up­date on Thurs­day Oc­to­ber 8th.

The Min­istry’s up­date al­so records 58 new pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es, but notes that this re­flects the sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the last 3 days and not the last 24 hours.

These lat­est pos­i­tive cas­es, the Min­istry says, bring the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 1,776.

Oth­er high­lights from the Min­istry’s up­date in­clude:

● To­tal num­ber of pa­tients in hos­pi­tal = 115

● To­tal num­ber of pa­tients in step-down fa­cil­i­ties = 36

● To­tal num­ber of pa­tients in state quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties = 159

● To­tal num­ber of per­sons in home self-iso­la­tion = 1625