The month of May has now surpassed April as the deadliest month in relation to COVID-19 after seven deaths – including that of a 17-year-old – were reported yesterday.
The Ministry of Health said that the seven deaths were recorded over a period of three days. This increased the country’s death toll to 368. As a result the total number of deaths recorded for the month so far now stands at 69. The Ministry noted that these patients were admitted to facilities with COVID-19-like symptoms and died while receiving care at medical facilities. The press release also stated that the samples which were taken at the time of their admission to these facilities returned positive.
Two of the seven persons, passed on May 22 and were identified as a 63-year-old woman from Region Four and a 53-year-old woman from Region Five. A 58-year-old woman from Region Four and a 76-year-old man from Region Seven, passed on May 23.
A 17-year-old boy from Region Four, the youngest fatality, was among three persons who died on Monday. The two others were identified as a 75-year-old man from Region Three and a 78-year-old man from Region Five.
Meanwhile, 85 new cases of the virus were reported, increasing Guyana’s total number of cases to 16,320. These cases came after 871 more persons were tested and increased the total number of persons tested to 147,283.
Of the new cases, the majority were reported in regions Four and Three with 43 and 19 cases respectively. There are now 1,880 active cases in the country, 97 of whom are in institutional isolation while another 1,783 are in home isolation. Nineteen persons remain patients at the country’s COVID-19 ICU and 47 more persons have recovered. Guyana’s total recovered cases now stand at 14,053.
