Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll jumped again yesterday after six more fatalities were reported.
The Ministry of Health announced that the latest fatalities which were recorded between Monday and Tuesday increased Guyana’s novel coronavirus deaths to 374. A total of 75 deaths have been recorded since May 1, 2021.
Five of the six persons succumbed on May 24 and included an 80-year-old man from Region Nine, a 53-year- old woman, a 73-year-old man, a 60-year-old woman and a 67-year-old man, all from Region Four. A 47-year- old woman from Region Nine died on Tuesday. In its press release the health ministry noted that these persons were admitted to facilities with COVID-19 like symptoms but died while receiving care.
Meanwhile, 236 new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday increasing Guyana’s total case count to 16,556. These came after 1,153 tests were conducted, increasing the total number of persons tested to date to 148,436.
According to the regional distribution of confirmed cases, Region Eight recorded the highest number of cases with 73, followed by Region Four with 60, then Region Nine with 53 new cases. There are now 2,018 active cases, 100 of whom are in institutional isolation while 1,918 are in home isolation. The number of patients at the country’s COVID-19 ICU has increased to 20 and 91 more persons have recovered taking the total number of recovered cases to 14,144.
Yesterday’s fatalities followed the listing of seven more deaths on Tuesday along with 85 new cases.
