Another COVID-19 death, 85 new cases recorded

Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll has risen once again.

The Health Ministry on Friday confirmed that a 79-year-old man of Region Six, East-Berbice Coren-tyne, succumbed on Wed-nesday in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Liliendaal. The man was said to have been partially vaccinated against the virus.

With his death, the official number of COVID deaths recorded to date here increased to 1,245.