The Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing 26 more lives have been lost to COVID-19 in its lat­est up­date, and that an­oth­er 601 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease.

In its up­date for to­day, Sun­day 5 De­cem­ber 2021, the Min­istry notes that these lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 2,262 lives lost.

In ad­di­tion, the 601 new pos­i­tive cas­es, based on sam­ples tak­en be­tween De­cem­ber 2nd and 4th, mean that there are now 12,290 ac­tive cas­es of COVID-19 in the coun­try, at this time.

More than 11,000 peo­ple cur­rent­ly are in home self-iso­la­tion, with 161 in step-down fa­cil­i­ties.

The fol­low­ing is the com­plete clin­i­cal up­date from the Min­istry...

Update courtesy Ministry of Health.