The Ministry of Health has announced the death of another person from COVID-19, while reporting the confirmation of 92 more cases following the processing of results from a majority of tests sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) at the end of last month to help clear some of the local backlog.
In a statement this afternoon, the ministry said the latest casualty is a 79 year-old man from Region Nine, who died while receiving care. “The test sample was collected from the patient at the time of admission and tested positive for COVID-19 subsequently,” it noted.
The ministry also said that today’s COVID-19 dashboard, which shows 92 new cases, includes a portion of tests sent to CARPHA on August 31 to help clear some of the existing backlog which had accumulated over the past several weeks.
“It is important to note therefore that the total figures in the dashboard do not represent results from the most recent testing as of yesterday, but over a longer period of time,” it explained.
According to the dashboard, Guyana’s total number of cases to date stand at 1,560, from a total of 9,762 persons tested so far.