16 new COVID-19 cases recorded

Guyana recorded 16 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease yesterday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 554 since March 11th.

This was disclosed by the Ministry of Health COVID-19 dashboard, which was updated after two days. Due to the additional cases, there are now 343 persons in institutional isolation. It was also revealed that 10 of the new cases are males and six are females. These positive results emerged from a total of 115 tests done in the previous 48 hours.