by Five more people in the province are in hospital after being admitted because of COVID-19, while six others have been released.
The province is also reporting a new outbreak of COVID-19 in a ward at Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital.
It says fewer than five patients have tested positive in the latest outbreak at the hospital.
As of late this afternoon, there was a total of 46 people in the province in hospital after being admitted because of COVID-19, including 12 people in intensive care.
187 new lab-confirmed cases of the virus are being reported today.
Of those cases, 65 are in the Central Zone, with 43 in the Eastern Zone, 49 in the Northern Zone and 30 in the Western Zone.