It puts the overall case count at 14,726. 46 people are receiving treatment in hospital --- 35 are in intensive care. The active caseload is 497. One new death was reported on Saturday, bringing the local death toll to 254.
Here are some other updates from the region's dashboard: 220,629 doses of the COVID vaccine have been administered --- 16,600 people in the region have been fully vaccinated (2.82 per cent) 2,283 cases have screened positive for variants of concern - 1,993 are the U.K. strain - two are linked to the variant first detected in South Africa - 17 are linked to the strain first found in Brazil - 271 cases where a mutation has been detected