Eight new Covid-19 cases identified

Tuesday, 2 March 2021 16:58

By Rob Pritchard @rpritchard9

Eight new cases of Coronavirus have been found on Island in the last 24 hours.

Four are close contacts of people in existing clusters and were already in quarantine, one was found through the day 1/7/13 testing regime for individuals who've travelled to the Isle of Man.

The other three are currently unexplained and have no immediate link to a cluster, this includes the two announced by Chief Minister, Howard Quayle MHK, this morning - all of them are now self-isolating.

Meanwhile, the number of active cases of the illness on Island stands at 58, with three people in hospital.

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