The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday announced that two more persons who were infected with COVID-19 have died.
This has increased the total number of COVID-19 deaths in Guyana to date to 556.
According to a statement issued by the Ministry, the two latest fatalities are women, ages 79 and 55, from regions Four and Six, respectively. They died while receiving care at a state medical facility.
A total of 15 COVID-19 deaths were confirmed last week, 10 of which were recorded in August. The remaining five were deaths that occurred in July. A total of 69 persons died last month.
Meanwhile, according to the COVID-19 dashboard, 89 more cases have been confirmed from 1,535 tests, increasing the total number of cases in the country to 22,932. Of the new cases, 55 are from Region Four, 11 are from Region Three, 3 from Region Five, 9 from Region Six, 10 from Region Nine and 1 from Region Ten.
The dashboard also showed that there are 18 persons in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, 90 in institutional isolation, 698 in home isolation and 5 in institutional quarantine.
Based on the dashboards from last Sunday to yesterday, 409 cases were recorded from 8,754 tests that were done.
