The coun­try’s COVID-19 death toll now stands at 1,650 af­ter five more peo­ple died over the past 24 hours.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health’s re­lease, the fa­tal­i­ties were two el­der­ly males, two mid­dle-aged males and one mid­dle-aged fe­male. The min­istry said one of the fa­tal­i­ties had no co­mor­bidi­ties while the oth­er four all had co­mor­bidi­ties in­clud­ing high blood pres­sure, di­a­betes, kid­ney dis­ease, lung dis­ease and obe­si­ty.

The min­istry al­so con­firmed 117 new cas­es from sam­ples col­lect­ed be­tween Oc­to­ber 21 and 24.

It said ac­tive cas­es de­creased slight­ly to 4,573 af­ter 195 peo­ple were re­leased by the min­istry. Of these, 19 peo­ple were dis­charged from pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties while 176 peo­ple were re­leased from home self-iso­la­tion as re­cov­ered com­mu­ni­ty cas­es.

Up to yes­ter­day, 618,345 peo­ple re­ceived a first dose of a COVID-19 vac­cine with 585,737 now ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed.