Sev­en more peo­ple—five el­der­ly men, and two mid­dle-aged men—have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 355 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

In its up­date for to­day, Mon­day 21 Feb­ru­ary 2022, the Min­istry notes three of the men had mul­ti­ple co­mor­bidi­ties while the oth­er four had on­ly one co­mor­bid­i­ty.  Their deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 3,574 lives lost.

Among the co­mor­bidi­ties present in the de­ceased were di­a­betes, hy­per­ten­sion, chron­ic kid­ney dis­ease, heart dis­ease, and be­nign pro­sta­t­ic hy­per­pla­sia (a con­di­tion in men in which the prostate gland is en­larged and not can­cer­ous).

In ad­di­tion, the 355 new pos­i­tive cas­es, based on sam­ples tak­en be­tween Feb­ru­ary 16th and 20th, mean that there are now 21,024 ac­tive cas­es of COVID-19 in the coun­try, at this time.

The Min­istry al­so notes that over­all, some 124,076 peo­ple have had COVID-19 since pan­dem­ic track­ing be­gan in March 2020, with 99,478 of them hav­ing re­cov­ered.