Guyana yesterday recorded its 190th COVID-19 fatality even as seven new cases of the virus were recorded.
The Ministry of Health said that the latest death was identified as a 63-year-old man from Region Four.
Meanwhile, the Ministry’s dashboard showed that some seven new cases were recorded which increased the country’s total number of positive confirmed cases to 8,427. The new cases came after some 633 more persons were tested, thus increasing the total number of persons tested so far to 60,727.
According to the regional distribution of COVID-19 cases, three new cases each were recorded in Regions Seven and Four while one new case was recorded in Region Three. As a result there are now 456 active cases, 41 of whom are in institutional isolation while another 415 are in home isolation. Eight persons remain patients at the country’s COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit.
There are eight persons who are in institutional quarantine while some 41 more persons have recovered from the virus. The total number of recovered cases now stands at 7,774.
