The coun­try's COVID-19 death toll now stands at 1,639 af­ter six more peo­ple in­fect­ed with the dis­ease died.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health's dai­ly up­date, the fa­tal­i­ties were two el­der­ly males, three mid­dle-aged males and one mid­dle-aged fe­male. It added that five of these pa­tients had mul­ti­ple co­mor­bidi­ties in­clud­ing a mix of high blood pres­sure, asth­ma, chron­ic kid­ney dis­ease, and a his­to­ry of heart at­tacks or strokes. One per­son's co­mor­bid­i­ty was obe­si­ty.

The Min­istry al­so con­firmed 234 new cas­es from sam­ples col­lect­ed be­tween Oc­to­ber 19 and 22 mak­ing it 55,437 peo­ple in­fect­ed lo­cal­ly since March 12. Ac­tive cas­es rose slight­ly to 4,589. The Min­istry al­so re­leased 150 peo­ple un­der its care; 23 of whom were dis­charged from pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties while 127 were re­leased from home self-iso­la­tion as re­cov­ered com­mu­ni­ty cas­es.

The Min­istry al­so added that one of the con­firmed cas­es of Delta in Fri­day's re­lease had no trav­el his­to­ry, no known con­tacts, and was un­vac­ci­nat­ed. The de­tails, it said, was omit­ted on Fri­day.

Up to 4 pm on Sat­ur­day, 617,429 peo­ple re­ceived at least one dose of a COVID-19 vac­cine with 583,447 com­plet­ing their reg­i­men.