Guyana yesterday recorded another COVID-19 fatality even as 51 new cases of the virus were reported.
The Ministry of Health in a press release stated that as of Tuesday another person who had tested positive for the virus died. The individual was identified as a 69-year-old woman from Region Four who died while receiving care at a medical facility. The COVID death toll is now 189.
Meanwhile, some 51 new cases were recorded which increased the country’s total positive confirmed cases to 8,313. These cases came after some 559 more persons were tested for the virus which increased the total number of persons tested to date to 55,857.