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COVID Deaths highest in Three Months

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By Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

 

#TurksandCaicos, August 4, 2022 – After weeks of being below 10,000 the weekly COVID-19 death toll is the highest it has been since the beginning of May.

While there were no new deaths on the islands in the Turks and Caicos due to the coronavirus, unfortunately global deaths are trending up.

The WHO says between July 25 and 30 there were over 14,000 deaths and 6.5 million new cases.  The death count for the previous week was similar.

A month before on June 29th cases stood at 4 million but deaths were much lower at 8,500, in the week before that of June 22nd there were 7500 deaths and 3.3 million cases.

Well the number is still far lower than the 60,000+ deaths that were occurring at the height of the Omicron wave each week the spike is concerning.

Turks and Caicos had 25 new COVID-19 infections between July 24 and 30th according to the most recent COVID19 dashboard; thankfully no new hospitalizations were listed meaning the six people hospitalized the previous week have since been discharged.

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