For the first time in months, New Providence went one day without recording any new COVID-19 cases on Friday, according to the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard.
However, nine were recorded on the island on Saturday.
In total, 21 cases were confirmed in The Bahamas over the weekend – seven on Friday and 14 on Saturday – bringing the total number of COVID cases in the country to 7,517.
Eight cases were recorded on Grand Bahama and four on Eleuthera.
Twelve of the new cases were men and nine were women.
No new deaths were confirmed over the weekend. As of Saturday, 18 people were hospitalized, with one of them in intensive care.
Over the weekend, 482 tests were conducted – 64 on Friday and 418 on Saturday, resulting in positivity rates of 10.9 percent and 3.3 percent, respectively.
There have been 163 COVID-related deaths in The Bahamas, and 34 people were confirmed to have died with COVID, but not from it. Another 22 deaths are still under investigation.
As of Saturday, there were 1,431 active cases and 5,867 recoveries.
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