Region Four woman, 70, latest COVID fatality

Another COVID-19 fatality was yesterday reported along with 44 new cases of the virus.

This was revealed by the Ministry of Health in a press release which stated that the country’s death toll as a result of the novel coronavirus increased to 513. The latest fatality was identified as a 70-year-old woman from Region Four who died while receiving care at a medical facility.

Meanwhile, the 44 new cases increased Guyana’s total confirmed case count to 21,606. The new cases came after some 378 more tests were conducted, as such increasing the total number of tests done to date to 210,272.