The country’s COVID-19 death toll for September moved to 49 up to Friday, when five more deaths were recorded.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday confirmed the latest fatalities, including a 35-year-old woman, which has taken the country’s overall death toll from COVID-19 to 674.
According to a statement by the Ministry, the latest deceased are a 37-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man from Region Two, a 78-year-old woman from Region Five, along with two women, ages 35 and 57, from Region Four. They all died on September 10 while receiving care at state medical institutions.
“The patients were admitted with COVID-19 like symptoms but died while receiving care at our medical institutions. Samples were taken at the time of admission which subsequently returned positive tests,” the statement said.
Guyana’s health authorities suspect a recent rise in infections and deaths are being driven by the presence of variants of the virus, although there is yet to be official confirmation as samples have not been sent for necessary testing for months.
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard yesterday showed that 263 new cases have been confirmed from 1,890 tests done. Of the new cases, 129 were from Region Four, 40 from Region Three, 28 from Region Six, 22 from Region Two, 17 from Region Seven, 7 each from regions Five and Eight, 5 each from regions One and Ten, and 3 from Region Nine.
The dashboard also showed that 32 persons were in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, 148 in institutional isolation, 2,772 in home isolation and 17 in institutional quarantine.
Based on the dashboards from last Sunday to yesterday, 1,487 new cases were confirmed from 12,081 tests done within the same period.
