Guyana yesterday recorded its 187th fatality as a result of the novel coronavirus while only one new case was reported.
The Ministry of Health in a press release stated that as of Sunday another person who had tested positive for the virus died, bringing Guyana’s total COVID-19 fatalities to 187. This person was identified as a 71-year-old man from Region Four who died while receiving care at a medical facility.
Meanwhile, the Ministry’s COVID-19 Dashboard showed that only one new case of the virus was recorded which increased the country’s total number of confirmed positive cases to 8,232. The one case was recorded after some 112 more persons were tested for the virus thus increasing the total number of persons tested to date to 55,190.