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Barbados records 192 new COVID-19 cases

June 1st, 2022

Barbados recorded 192 new cases of COVID-19 (84 males and 108 females) on Tuesday, May 31st. The Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory conducted a total of 767 tests.

Of this number, 50 are people under the age of 18, and 142 are 18 years and older.

There are now 43 people in isolation facilities and 1,605 in home isolation.

To date, the public health laboratory has carried out 687,550 tests since February 2020, and recorded 80,846 cases (36,912 males and 43,934 females) of COVID-19.

Under the National Vaccination Programme for the virus, the total number of people with at least one dose is 162, 400 (71.1 per cent of the eligible population).

The total number of people who are fully vaccinated is 152,825 (56.4 per cent of the total population, or 66.9 per cent of the eligible population).

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