Ac­tive COVID-19 cas­es in the coun­try con­tin­ued to rise yes­ter­day af­ter the Min­istry of Health con­firmed 16 new in­fec­tions from sam­ples col­lect­ed be­tween Jan­u­ary 16 and 18.

Ac­tive in­fec­tions now stand at 338. 

Of the ac­tive cas­es, 42 were in hos­pi­tals, five were in step-down fa­cil­i­ties and 275 were in home self-iso­la­tion.

There were 309 peo­ple in state quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties.

Sev­en peo­ple al­so re­cov­ered from the virus af­ter the min­istry dis­charged three peo­ple from pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties and re­leased four peo­ple from home self-iso­la­tion as re­cov­ered com­mu­ni­ty cas­es.

The to­tal num­ber of peo­ple to re­cov­er from the in­fec­tion lo­cal­ly now stands at 6,945. 

Deaths re­mained at 132.