2 unvaccinated persons latest COVID-19 deaths

…76 new cases recorded

The COVID-19 death toll in Guyana has gone up to 959 after two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus died.
According to the Health Ministry on Sunday, these latest fatalities are a 51-year-old female and a 71-year-old male, both from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica). They were both unvaccinated and died on November 13.
With these two fatalities, the total number of persons who have died from the pandemic so far in November is now 33.
Meanwhile, another 76 persons have contracted the deadly virus, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 36,817.
There are currently 2354 active cases in Guyana including 15 patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the remaining 2339 persons in isolation, that is, 57 in home isolation and the other 2282 in institutional isolation.
Additionally, 12 more persons are also in institutional quarantine, according to Sunday’s COVID-19 dashboard.
To date, some 33,504 persons have recovered from the life-threatening virus – 22 more recoveries than the previous day.
Moreover, a total of 372,235 persons have been tested for the novel coronavirus thus far and of this, 17,349 males and 19,468 females were found to be positive.
Of the 76 new cases detected on Sunday, two were from Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), six from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), a whopping 41 cases from the Demerara-Mahaica region, another two from Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), 20 cases from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), two more from Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) and the remaining three cases from Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo).
There were no new cases recorded in Regions One (Barima-Waini), Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) and 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) on Sunday.
The Guyana Government launched its COVID-19 vaccination exercise back in February and continues to roll it out across the various regions in order to achieve herd immunity and reduce the number of COVID-19 infections.
So far, over 390,000 persons of the adult population have received their first dose of the vaccine and more than 259,000 persons who are 18 years and older are fully immunised.
As it relates to adolescents, over 19,000 children between the ages of 12 to 17 are fully vaccinated.
Persons are encouraged to get immunised since the COVID-19 vaccine provides a layer of protection against severe symptoms of COVID-19.
Nevertheless, as more people continue to get vaccinated, authorities are urging the public to continue observing all COVID-19 preventative measures, particularly masking in public, social distancing and frequent hand washing and sanitising.
The measures also include vaccination requirements to access any public building such as restaurants, places of worship, schools as well as Government buildings.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), some 251,788,329 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 5,077,907 deaths.
The WHO also reported on Sunday that in the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 94,820,509 while the death toll in the region has gone up to 2,315,823.
Recent figures show a total of 7,160,396,495 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. (G8)