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For October thus far, seven fully vaccinated persons have died, 14 partially vaccinated persons have died, 86 unvaccinated persons died and the vaccination status was unknown for 5 persons who died. For the year thus far, the number of COVID-19 related deaths per month are as follows: January – 13; February – 20; March – 36; April – 66; May – 98; June – 80; July – 68; August – 80; September – 172 and 114 deaths in October as of October 30.
Meanwhile, the COVID-19 dashboard for October 29 showed 94 new cases, 17 persons in the COVID-19 ICU and 2,816 in home isolation. The vaccination rate now stands at over 377,000 for the first jab and over 237,000 for the second leaving a gap between the two doses of over 100,000. Meanwhile, over 26,000 children have received their first shot of the pfizer vaccine and over 17,000 have received their second dose