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A 93-year-old Barbadian woman brings to 16 the number of people who have died as a result of coronavirus (Covid-19).
A statement from the COVID Communications Unit today said: “In the early hours of this morning, February 4, the disease claimed the life of a 93-year-old Barbadian lady. With her passing, the number of Covid-19 related deaths in Barbados now stands at 16.
“At the time of her passing, the senior citizen had been a patient of Harrison Point’s Secondary Isolation Ward for 11 days, having been admitted there on January 24. As with the majority of persons who have died from Covid-19 in Barbados, chronic noncommunicable diseases of hypertension and diabetes were part of the lady’s medical history.”