 Meanwhile, the Israel Long Laboratory continues to manage the backlog of COVID-19 samples. Sunday, January 31, 2021, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received confirmation of 216 new cases of COVID-19 from a batch of 541 tests conducted at the Israel Long Laboratory. This batch consists of samples taken over several days, from the period January 21, to January 29, 2021. The Ministry of Health also received confirmation of the recovery of 8 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19, bringing a total number of active cases in country to 769. Two of these cases are in critical care and all of the others are stable. The individual who was in critical care over the course of the past week is no longer in the intensive care unit and is currently stable. The Ministry has also recorded two COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total number of deaths in country to date to 15. The deceased are a 72-year-old male from the Grosile district with no known medical history and a 21-year-old male from the Babano district with no known medical history. Both individuals were in care at the time of their passing.