73 more COVID-19 cases recorded

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday reported that 73 more cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Thursday from the results of 230 tests that have been done.

According to the daily COVID-19 dashboard, 30 of the new cases were from Region Four, 18 from Region One, 2 each from both Region Two and Region Three, 1 each from Region Five and Region Six, 10 from Region Seven, 3 from Region Nine and 6 from Region Ten.

With the additional cases, the total number of confirmed cases in Guyana has risen to 5,601.

In addition, the dashboard revealed that there are now five persons in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 45 persons in institutional isolation, 705 persons in home isolation, and 22 persons in institutional quarantine.

Up to yesterday, a total of 151 persons had died after becoming infected with the virus.