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Elderly woman succumbs to COVID

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A 96-year-old woman is the most recent person to die from COVID-19.

She was unvaccinated and passed away at the Harrison’s Point Isolation Facility on Thursday, December 16.

The COVID-19 death toll now stands at 256.

Minister of Health and Wellness, The Most Honourable Jeffrey Bostic, extended condolences to her loved ones. (PR)

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