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Two women succumb to COVID-19; toll at 258

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Two women died from coronavirus (COVID-19) in Barbados, bringing the number of deaths to 258.

One of them, aged 65, presented dead on arrival at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department on Monday, December 13. She was unvaccinated.

The other woman, who was 83 years old, died at the Harrison’s Point Isolation Facility on Monday, December 20. She, too, was unvaccinated.

Minister of Health and Wellness, The Most Honourable Jeffrey Bostic, has extended condolences to their family and friends. (BGIS)

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