A 93-year-old unvaccinated woman inflicted with underlying diseases died of the novel coronavirus disease on Tuesday, raising Macau’s official COVID-19 death toll to 114, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement yesterday.
The fatality recorded on Tuesday came after no COVID-19 fatalities were recorded on Monday.
Yesterday’s statement also announced that six new patients diagnosed with the novel coronavirus disease were admitted to the Health Bureau’s (SSM) isolation and treatment facilities on Tuesday.
According to the Health Bureau’s COVID-19 website, which was updated yesterday, Macau’s official cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases stood at 3,445, of which 3,251 had meanwhile been cured.
Macau’s first six COVID-19 fatalities were reported during Macau’s previous COVID-19 outbreak that began on June 18 last year and started to subside in late July, colloquially known as 618 outbreak in Cantonese. The Macau government was pursuing a dynamic zero-COVID approach when the city was hit by the 618 outbreak.
Macau’s seventh COVID-19 fatality was reported on December 13, a few days after the Macau government abandoned its long-running dynamic zero-COVID approach.
