Four more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 246 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

In its up­date for to­day, Fri­day 24 Sep­tem­ber 2021, the Min­istry notes that these lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 1,441 lives lost.

In ad­di­tion, the 246 new pos­i­tive cas­es, based on sam­ples tak­en be­tween Sep­tem­ber 20th and 23rd, mean that there are now 4,270 ac­tive cas­es of COVID-19 in the coun­try, at this time.

Cur­rent­ly, some 475,896 peo­ple in the coun­try are ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed, whether un­der a two-dose regime or a sin­gle dose regime.

And some 565,940 peo­ple have re­ceived their first dos­es of a COVID-19 vac­cine, as of to­day, Fri­day, 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:

● 293 per­sons are still hos­pi­talised for COVID-19; up from 288 pa­tients on Thurs­day.

● 3,663 per­sons are in home self-iso­la­tion; up from 3,523 pa­tients on Thurs­day.

● 114 per­sons are in State quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties; down from 117 pa­tients on Thurs­day.

● 68 pa­tients are still re­cov­er­ing in step/down fa­cil­i­ties; up from 67 pa­tients on Thurs­day.