The Ministry of Health yesterday said that three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died. This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 114.
The latest fatalities are three women, a 74-year-old and two sixty-four-year-olds from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica). These persons died while receiving care at the ministry’s medical facility.
Meanwhile, 31 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the country which increased the country’s total number of confirmed cases to 3,765. Of the new cases, 25 were recorded in Region Four, 5 in Region Six and 1 in Region Three.
There are 12 persons in the COVID-19 intensive Care Unit (ICU) while there are 893 active cases in the Guyana. According to the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard, 74 of those persons are in institutional isolation while 819 are in home isolation.
Some 270 persons were tested during the last round of testing and as such the total number of persons tested in the country now stands at 17,135. Some 95 new recoveries were recorded which means that 2,749 persons have so far recovered from the virus in the country.
