76-year-old female is third person to die from Covid-19 in SVG
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A 76-year-old female is the third person to die from complications of COVID-19 in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), a release on Wednesday from the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) said.
The patient, who was admitted to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital on January 31, 2021, had multiple pre-exiting conditions and succumbed to multiorgan failure on February 3, 2021.
Also on Wednesday, SVG confirmed eight new COVID-19 cases from samples collected between January 17 and February 2. All of the new cases were detected during contact tracing and testing of persons with flu symptoms. There are now 918 local cases of COVID-19, many of whom are linked as contacts of known positives.