20 September 2022
The St Helena Health Services Directorate would like to inform the public that 449 positive cases of COVID-19 were identified within the community during the period Friday, 9 September, to Thursday, 15 September 2022.
A total of 506 positive cases have been identified since the lifting of quarantine on Monday, 8 August 2022.
There have been no hospitalisations at this time.
The public is advised to continue to practice good hand and respiratory hygiene and to call the COVID Helpline via tel: 25888 if experiencing symptoms of COVID-19.
If you have self-tested and are positive please call the COVID Helpline on 25888 to report your result so that we can update your health record. You will be asked for your name, date of birth and the date you tested positive.
Persons who have had a COVID-19 test done independently are reminded that if a positive test result is received, to please report this to the Health Services via the COVID-19 Helpline so the Health Services can track and analyse the rate of infection.
Note to Editors:
Figures used within these updates are results from the St Helena Health Directorates’ testing clinics and those reported to the Health Directorate from individuals testing independently.
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SHG
20 September 2022