Guyana has now recorded its 13th death as a result of the novel coronavirus even as three more positive cases were recorded.
In a message to members of the media, Secretary of the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF), Imran Khan, disclosed that the Ministry of Public Health confirmed the 13th death in the country. Khan informed that it was a 42-year-old man who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Monday. No further details were given about this death and it is unclear if the individual was tested after his death.
With the three new cases recorded, Guyana now has 248 cases of COVID-19 while 56 persons were tested on Wednesday which means that 2,634 persons have been tested for the virus so far in the country. There are now 120 active cases in the country, all of whom are within institutional isolation. Two more persons have recovered making it a total of 116 persons to have so far recovered from the virus.
During the Ministry of Public Health’s daily update, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle, stated that Regions One, Four, and Seven, are the regions that have recorded the most cases of the virus in the country.
She assured residents of Region’s One and Seven, which have the highest and second highest number of active cases respectively that the Public Health Ministry is working collaboratively with regional authorities to address the situation which she said is “threatening to spiral out of control.”
