The na­tion­al COVID-19 death toll now stands at 3,603 lives lost with the deaths of sev­en more peo­ple—six el­der­ly men, three el­der­ly women and one mid­dle-aged man—ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

Three of the sev­en had mul­ti­ple co­mor­bidi­ties while one per­son had on­ly one co­mor­bid­i­ty, and three per­sons had no known med­ical con­di­tion.

Among the co­mor­bidi­ties present in the de­ceased were Di­a­betes, Hy­per­ten­sion, Heart Dis­ease, Chron­ic Kid­ney Dis­ease, Hy­per­c­ho­les­terolemia (high lev­els of cho­les­terol in the blood), Alzheimer’s (a brain dis­or­der that slow­ly de­stroys mem­o­ry and think­ing skills and, even­tu­al­ly, the abil­i­ty to car­ry out the sim­plest tasks), and Gout (a com­mon form of in­flam­ma­to­ry arthri­tis that is very painful).

The Min­istry al­so is re­port­ing in its up­date for to­day, Thurs­day 24 Feb­ru­ary 2022, that an­oth­er 654 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease.  These new pos­i­tive cas­es are based on sam­ples tak­en be­tween Feb­ru­ary 19th and 23rd and have moved up the num­ber of ac­tive cas­es of COVID-19 in the coun­try to 21,251.

The Min­istry al­so notes that over­all, some 125,864 peo­ple have had COVID-19 since pan­dem­ic track­ing be­gan in March 2020.

Cur­rent­ly, some 701,881 peo­ple in the coun­try are ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed, hav­ing com­plet­ed ei­ther a one-dose or two-dose reg­i­men for a COVID-19 vac­cine.

Some 685,811 peo­ple have re­ceived their first dose of a two-dose reg­i­men COVID-19 vac­cine, and 132,843 peo­ple have re­ceived boost­er dos­es as of to­day, Wednes­day, the Min­istry’s up­date re­ports.

The Min­istry re­minds the pub­lic that:

●   A per­son is con­sid­ered to be ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed two weeks af­ter re­ceiv­ing the fi­nal rec­om­mend­ed vac­cine dose(s) of a World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO) ap­proved vac­cine or vac­cine com­bi­na­tion; and

●   A “boost­er” refers to both Ad­di­tion­al Pri­ma­ry dos­es and Boost­er dos­es of the COVID-19 vac­cine.