Ten new COVID-19 deaths were reported by the Ministry of Health yesterday, taking the death toll for October to 38, with a majority of the fatalities being unvaccinated persons.
A 21-year-old East Berbice-Corentyne resident was among the 10 latest to succumb to the virus, the ministry confirmed yesterday.
The other deceased were four persons, ages 76, 78, 51 and 32, from Region Four, another, 63, from Region Three, two others, ages 81 and 71, from Region Two, another, 90, from Region Seven and another, 67, from Region Ten. The ministry said they were all unvaccinated.
Of the 38 persons who died from the virus this month, 33 were unvaccinated, while three were partially vaccinated and the status of two victims were reported as unknown.
With the latest deaths, the total number of fatalities recorded here from the virus to date rose to 835.
Meanwhile, according to the ministry’ COVID-19 dashboard, which was released by the ministry yesterday, 229 new cases were recorded from 1,890 tests that were done.
The dashboard showed that 29 persons were in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit and 3,767 active cases across the country.
The data released also showed that 28,935 persons have recovered from the virus.
