Twenty-three additional cases of COVID-19 were confirmed by the Ministry of Health (MoH) on Christmas Day, while no new cases were reported yesterday.
As a result, the total number of known COVID-19 cases officially recorded by Guyana up to the end of yesterday stood at 6, 289.
According to the December 25th, COVID-19 dashboard, 14 of the 23 cases were detected in Region Four, 3 from Region Five, 5 from Region Eight and 1 from Region Ten. The positive results emerged from 105 COVID-19 tests that were done.
Meanwhile, yesterday’s dashboard revealed that 30 COVID-19 tests were done but no new positive cases were detected from the samples. Additionally, the dashboard confirmed that 7 persons were in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 16 persons in institutional isolation, 452 in home isolation and 13 persons in institutional quarantine.
The dashboard also stated that 5,652 persons who were infected with the disease have recovered while 162 died as a result of the virus.
Based on the dashboards released from last Sunday to yesterday, 189 positive COVID-19 cases were confirmed from 1, 602 tests done.
