Three more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday recorded even as some 92 new cases were reported.
The Ministry of Health announced that Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll now stands at 306 after three more persons who had tested positive for the virus died. Those persons were identified as a 66-year-old man, a 47-year-old man and a 77-year-old woman. They were all from Region Four and died while receiving care at medical facilities.
Meanwhile, the new cases that were reported increased Guyana’s total number to 13,656. These came after some 537 more persons were tested thus taking the total number to 125,711.
As a result there are now 1,737 active cases, 100 of whom are in institutional isolation while another 1,637 are in home isolation. Two more persons were admitted to the country’s COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, pushing that number to 17.
The new cases were reported in seven regions with Region Nine seeing the highest cases – 37. Eight new cases were reported in Regions Three and Five, 26 in Region Four, two in Region Seven, four in Region Six and seven in Region Ten.
Some 147 more persons have recovered thus increasing Guyana’s recovered cases to 11,596.
