As Guyana’s total number of COVID-19 cases rose to over 3,000, the Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday reported that a 74-year-old woman from Region Four is the latest casualty.
With death of the woman, who the ministry said succumbed while receiving care at a state medical facility, the COVID-19 death toll stood at 86 up to end of yesterday.
Meanwhile, the ministry reported that 37 additional positive cases were recorded from the results of samples taken from 153 persons.
With the additional cases, the country has now recorded a total of 3,005 COVID-19 cases since March 11.
According to the ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard, the additional cases are from Region One, which recorded nine cases; Region Two and Region Eight, each of which recorded one more case; Region Three, which recorded three more cases; Region Four, which recorded 19 more cases; and Region Six and Ten, both of which recorded two more cases each.
The dashboard also showed that 18 persons are in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 144 persons in institutional isolation, 851 persons in home isolation and 64 persons in institutional quarantine.
The dashboard also revealed that 1,907 persons had recovered up to yesterday.
