Another person has succumbed to Covid-19 and 96 new cases were recorded yesterday.
The Ministry of Health reported that the country’s death toll as a result of the virus increased to 469 after a 52- year-old man from Region Four passed on June 29. He died while receiving care at a medical institution.
Meanwhile, the 96 new cases increased Guyana’s total confirmed cases to 20,055 and these came after 1,550 tests were done, taking the total number of tests to date to 188,859.
According to the regional distribution of cases, regions One and Ten recorded 4 new cases, Region Two – 7, regions Three and Six – 9 each , Region Four – 53, and regions Five and Nine – 5 cases each.
There are now 1,534 active cases, 94 of which are in institutional isolation while another 1,440 are in home isolation. Some 12 persons are now patients at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit and 161 more persons have recovered, increasing the total number of recovered cases to 18,040.
