Guyana’s COVID-19 deaths yesterday increased to 361 as two more persons who tested positive succumbed.
This was revealed by the Ministry of Health in a press release which stated that the latest fatalities are a 69-year-old man from Region One and an 86-year-old man from Region Nine. They both died while receiving care at a medical facility.
Meanwhile, some 105 new cases were reported which increased Guyana’s total case count to 16,235. These new cases came after some 758 more persons were tested thus increasing the total number to date to 146,412.
There are now 1,849 active cases, 94 of whom are in institutional isolation while another 1,755 are in home isolation. Of the new cases, the majority was recorded in Regions Four, Two and Six with 44, 25 and 17 cases respectively.
Some 19 persons are in the COVID-19 ICU even as 261 more persons have recovered from the virus. The total number of recovered cases now stands at 14,006.
