The health ministry said in its Covid bulletin that the latest victim was an 87 year old woman, raising the death toll since the pandemic started to 713.
With seven more days to the end of the month, January deaths are the second-highest tally behind the record 80 in August 2021.
To date, 447 men have died of the virus (62.7%) and 266 women, with an average age of 76.1 years.
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