2d person dies from Delta variant, 7 extra cases recorded

The num­ber of peo­ple with the Delta vari­ant of COVID-19 has climbed over all all over again and the fig­ure now stands at 49.

In its dai­ly up­date yes­ter­day, the Min­istry of Health re­port­ed that sev­en new cas­es of the Delta vari­ant were de­tect­ed in the coun­try.

Of these sev­en cas­es, 5 of them have not any trav­el his­to­ry; six of them had no con­tact with symp­to­matic per­sons.

The min­istry al­so said that three of the sev­en cas­es had been ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed peo­ple, with one par­tial­ly vac­ci­nat­ed and the re­major­ing three un­vac­ci­nat­ed.

It added that one per­son who made up the sev­en Delta vari­ant cas­es suc­cumbed to the virus.

This is the sec­ond per­son to possess died from the Delta vari­ant.

The first loss of life used to be re­port­ed by the min­istry remaining Fri­day.

In advert­di­tion, the coun­try’s COVID loss of life toll has risen to 1,551 af­ter eleven peo­ple misplaced their wrestle with the virus. Those that died are four el­der­ly males, one el­der­ly fe­male, one mid­dle-former male, three mid­dle-former fe­males with co­mor­bidi­ties, and one mid­dle-former male, and a mid­dle-former fe­male with­out any com­modi­ties or pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions.

The coun­try al­so document­ed 248 new pos­i­tive cas­es yes­ter­day.

Mean­whereas, the num­ber of ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed cit­i­zens stood at 546,532.