The Ministry of Health has recorded over 55,000 tests for the month of January thus far, which was reported to be more than the number of tests done for the entire 2020.
This was disclosed by Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, during his daily COVID-19 update yesterday where he stated that a large number of tests have been done thus far. To be precise, 55,429 COVID-19 tests were conducted for the month of January.
“To put that number into perspective if we go back to 2020 for the whole of 2020, so we had our first case of COVID starting on the 11th of March 2020 so for the whole of 2020 we as a country did 38,548 tests,” he pointed out.
The minister went on to state that if persons are to examine the number of tests that were done for the year 2021, it can be noted that 387,266 COVID-19 tests were done overall. This, he said, could work out to an average of 32,272 tests per month. “So you can see in January of this year we would have exceeded all of those numbers in terms of testing.”
Meanwhile, Dr Anthony noted that the country currently has 12,355 active cases with 2,541 tests done over the past 24 hours, while noting that there are a lot of active cases in the regions.
Giving a breakdown of the active cases, in Region Four there were 875 cases spread across communities on the East Bank of Demerara. While on the East Coast of Demerara there are approximately 303 active cases spread across villages such as Non Pareil, Mon Repos, Better Hope, Haslington and Paradise.
Additionally in Georgetown, it was revealed that there are 1,794 active cases spread across communities such as Sophia, Kitty, South Ruimveldt, Campbellville, Cummings Lodge, and West Ruimveldt.
