The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of June 06, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.
This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 411.
The latest fatalities are two women: a 70-year-old from Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) and a 65-year-old from Demerara-Mahaica. They died while receiving care at the ministry’s medical facility.
Meanwhile, 53 new cases of the virus were reported yesterday. The new cases came after some 602 more persons were tested thus increasing the total number of persons tested to 161,788. According to the dashboard’s regional distribution of COVID-19 cases, the new cases came from eight of the country’s ten administrative regions: Region Two (6 cases), Region Three (7 cases), Region Four (23 cases), Region Five and Seven (4 cases each), Region Six (3 cases), Region Eight (1 case) and Region Nine with 5 new cases.
There are 1,770 active cases, 95 of whom are in institutional isolation while another 1,675 are in home isolation. Some 17 persons are patients at the country’s COVID-19 ICU.
