Region Four woman, 53, is country’s latest COVID fatality

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday disclosed that another person who was infected with COVID-19 has died.

The latest fatality is a 53-year-old woman from Region Four, who died while receiving care at a medical facility. Her passing has raised the death toll to 176.

Meanwhile, the COVID-19 dashboard showed that 53 new COVID-19 cases were recorded. The new cases reflected on the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard have increased Guyana’s total positive COVID-19 infections to 7,581. The cases were the result of 270 more persons being tested for the respiratory disease.