Three more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health.  These lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 4,051 lives lost.

The Min­istry says all three per­sons—one el­der­ly male and two el­der­ly fe­males—had mul­ti­ple co­mor­bidi­ties in­clud­ing di­a­betes, hy­per­ten­sion, heart dis­ease, kid­ney dis­ease, en­docrine dis­ease and neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­ease.

In its up­date for to­day, Sat­ur­day 30 Ju­ly 2022, the Min­istry of Health al­so re­ports that 162 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.  At present, the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try is 6,379.

As of to­day, Sat­ur­day, 136 COVID-19 pa­tients are hos­pi­talised—in hos­pi­tal and step-down fa­cil­i­ties.  Some 6,243 peo­ple cur­rent­ly are in home self-iso­la­tion.

Cur­rent­ly, some 715,508 peo­ple in the coun­try are ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed, hav­ing com­plet­ed ei­ther a one-dose or two-dos­es reg­i­men of a COVID-19 vac­cine.  The Min­istry says this rep­re­sents some 51.1 per cent of the pop­u­la­tion.

And some 167,341 peo­ple have re­ceived their boost­er dos­es of a COVID-19 vac­cine, as of to­day, Sat­ur­day, the Min­istry’s up­date re­ports.  Boost­er dos­es are ad­di­tion­al pri­ma­ry dos­es and boost­er dos­es of the COVID-19 vac­cine.