Some 386 peo­ple have be­come new­ly in­fect­ed with COVID-19, even as an­oth­er 10 peo­ple have lost their lives to the dis­ease.

The lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing that these lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 1,668 lives lost, while the coun­try now has some 4,733 ac­tive cas­es of COVID-19, as a re­sult of the 386 new pos­i­tive cas­es, based on sam­ples tak­en be­tween Oc­to­ber 24th and 27th.

Al­so in its up­date for to­day, Thurs­day 28 Oc­to­ber 2021, the Min­istry notes that some 595,072 peo­ple in the coun­try are ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed, hav­ing com­plet­ed ei­ther a one-dose or two-dose regime.

And some 621,013 peo­ple have re­ceived their first dos­es of a COVID-19 vac­cine, as of to­day, Mon­day, the Min­istry’s up­date re­ports.

The Min­istry re­minds the pub­lic that a per­son is con­sid­ered to be ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed two weeks af­ter re­ceiv­ing the fi­nal rec­om­mend­ed vac­cine dose(s) of a World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO) ap­proved vac­cine or vac­cine com­bi­na­tion.

The Health Min­istry al­so notes in its up­date:

● 342 per­sons are still hos­pi­talised for COVID-19; up from 332 pa­tients on Wednes­day.

● 3,975 per­sons are in home self-iso­la­tion; down from 4,116 pa­tients on Wednes­day.

● 70 per­sons are in State quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties; down from 87 pa­tients on Wednes­day.

● 30 pa­tients are still re­cov­er­ing in step/down fa­cil­i­ties; down from 35 pa­tients on Wednes­day.

The health min­istry al­so re­ports that 93.7% of the cur­rent par­al­lel health­care sys­tem are not ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed—some 4,493 from a to­tal of 4,794—based on da­ta from Ju­ly 22nd to Oc­to­ber 13th, 2021.