Seven of Guyana’s ten administrative regions have now recorded positive cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Region Seven is the newest region to report a positive case of COVID-19, joining Regions One, Three, Four, Six, Nine and Ten.
During the Ministry of Public Health’s daily COVID-19 update yesterday, it was revealed that there are now four new cases in the country, bringing the total number of cases to 113, after 56 more tests were done. In total 986 persons have been tested.
According to the Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr. Karen Gordon-Boyle, who delivered the update, the number of deaths as a result of the virus remain at 10, while 39 persons have since recovered from the virus. She noted that 67 persons are in institutional isolation even as six persons remain in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, with one of those patients being intubated.
Gordon-Boyle specifically pointed out that all except three regions in Guyana have reported confirmed cases with Region Seven reporting its first confirmed case yesterday. “This means that the coronavirus is slowly making its way across our entire country,” she said.
The Deputy Chief Medical officer added that Guyanese must think about reducing the transmission of the disease and containing the spread seriously so as to return to normalcy. “Instead of our curve beginning to flatten, we still see an upward trajectory in positive coronavirus cases,” she noted.
Gordon-Boyle further urged persons to adhere to the COVID-19 emergency measures in place as she encouraged those who have been in contact with positive cases to come forward and even provide information about the persons that they too would have been in contact with.
