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Barbados’ deaths related to the COVID-19 virus have now skyrocketed to 18, after two more elderly citizens passed away in the space of the last 48 hours.
The country had entered 2021 with just seven cases, but the latest two make it 11 in less than a month.
And Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic, is quite concerned about the upsurge that is affecting the country as part of a second spike of the virus.
In a statement released by Government’s Covid Communications Unit moments ago, it was confirmed that a third and fourth Barbadian have died between yesterday and this morning, bringing the death toll from the virus to 18.