344 people – that’s 148 males and 196 females – tested positive for COVID-19 out of the 1,013 tests carried out yesterday.
The cases comprise 76 people under the age of 18, and 268 who are 18 years and older.
The number of people in isolation facilities was 116, while 4,134 were in home isolation.
The public health laboratory has conducted 651,301 tests since February 2020, and recorded 70,793 COVID-19 cases.
Under the National Vaccination Programme for COVID-19, the total number of fully vaccinated people is 151,991 (56.1 per cent of the total population or 66.5 per cent of the eligible population).
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