A 22-year-old teacher from Sand Creek in the South Rupununi who was infected with COVID-19 is the latest to succumb to the virus.
Marvalene Marco died yesterday morning at the Lethem hospital in Region Nine where she was admitted after testing positive for COVID-19. This was confirmed by a member of the South Rupununi District Council, who related to Stabroek News that Marco recently tested positive for COVID-19. She was experiencing severe symptoms of the virus when she was taken to the hospital in Lethem.
Stabroek News was informed that Sand Creek currently has 80 active COVID-19 cases, some of which were recorded on Saturday. The new outbreak began almost two weeks ago when seven students of the community’s secondary school tested positive for the virus. A week later, 45 more students tested positive, and the remainder was confirmed on Saturday.
In March, the Village Council had imposed a two-week lockdown after several persons tested positive for COVID-19. This is the third outbreak of the virus in the community to date.
There are more than 260 active cases of COVID-19 in Region Nine with the majority distributed among the South Rupununi Indigenous communities. Lethem and St Ignatius are also battling COVID-19 outbreaks. Sand Creek presently has the highest number of active cases in Region Nine.
