A total of 177 new COVID-19 infections have been confirmed by the Ministry of Health.
According to the ministry’s updated COVID-19 dashboard, which was released yesterday, Region Four continues to lead the country in new COVID-19 infections as it was responsible for 91 of the new cases. There were also 3 from Region One, three from Region Two, 23 from Region Three, 4 from Region Five, 5 from Region Six, 11 from Region Seven, 28 from Region Nine and 9 from Region 10. There were none from Region Eight.
There were no confirmed deaths yesterday but Guyana has recorded 18 COVID-19 fatalities over the last seven days, bringing the total number of deaths in August to 45. Throughout the pandemic 591 Guyanese have succumbed.
The dashboard also showed that there were 15 persons in the COVID-19 ICU, 103 in institutional isolation, 1,197 in home isolation and five persons in institutional quarantine.
Over the last week a total of 769 new infections were confirmed from a total of 9,751 tests, which would put the positivity rate at 7.9%. Over the last three weeks there has been a positivity rate of 6.4% as 1807 positive results were recorded from 28,280 positive tests.
Overall, the COVID-19 positivity rate for the first half of the month of August shows a relative decline in cases recorded in comparison to the same period in July.
Data compiled by Stabroek News shows that for the month of July there was an overall positivity rate of 6.7% as a total of 2,542 persons tested positive out of some 38,000 tests that were done.
For the first half of the month of July, some 7.1% of persons tested were positive. There were 1,221 infections recorded out of 17,103 tests between July 1 and July 15, while for the month of August, for the same period there was a 5.6% positivity rate.
From August 1 to August 15, a total of 1,038 cases were reported out of 18,529 tests that were done. While there was decline in the number of cases recorded, there was an increase in the number of tests that have been conducted for the period under review.
