Guyana now has 420 active COVID-19 cases which accounts for 66.5% of the total confirmed cases recorded to date.
This was revealed through the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 Dashboard which showed that some eight new cases of the novel coronavirus were recorded yesterday which increased Guyana’s total case count to 631. The new cases reportedly came from Regions Two, Four, Nine and Ten. Some 176 more persons were tested for the virus during the last testing cycle which increased the total number of persons tested to 5,638. A number of government ministers’ samples were taken for testing on Wednesday after it was revealed that Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Hugh Todd had tested positive for the virus. Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony told Stabroek News yesterday that up to last evening they had not received their test results from the laboratory.
