Guyana yesterday recorded its 181st COVID-19 fatality as cases of the virus in the country surpassed 8,000.
The Ministry of Health through a press release announced that as of Sunday another death was recorded thus pushing Guyana’s death toll to 181. The new death was identified as that of a 74-year-old man from Region Four who succumbed while receiving care at a medical facility.
Meanwhile, some 41 new cases were recorded thus increasing Guyana’s total positive cases to 8,023. The new cases came after some 584 more persons were tested for the virus. As a result the total number of persons tested in Guyana now stands at 53,059.
The majority of the new cases were recorded in Region Seven, which according to the Ministry of Health’s dashboard reported 25 new cases. Fourteen cases were recorded in Region Four while two new cases were recorded In Region Three.
There are now 858 active cases in Guyana, 41 of whom are in institutional isolation while 817 are in home isolation. Two more persons have been admitted to the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit thus increasing the total number of patients at the facility to seven.
Eleven more persons have recovered even as some 8 persons are in institutional quarantine.
