2 more COVID-19 deaths, 125 new cases

Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll continues to climb as two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus died.
According to the Health Ministry on Wednesday, this now takes the total number of deaths locally from the virus to 454.
The latest fatalities are a 68-year-old female from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) and a 55-year-old male from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne). They both died on Tuesday while receiving care at medical facilities in the respective regions.
With these, the COVID-19 death toll for the month of June has gone up to 56. Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus here last year, May became the deadliest month with 99 fatalities, after surpassing April’s tally of 66.

New cases
Meanwhile, some 125 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 from 2018 tests conducted in the previous 24 hours.
This is according to the updated dashboard on Wednesday, which indicated that the total number of confirmed cases has increased to 19,359.
But only 1608 of these are currently active cases, including 20 patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The other 1588 persons are in isolation – 115 in institutional isolation and the remaining 1473 in home isolation.
There are also eight persons in institutional quarantine.
Some 17,297 persons have recovered from the life-threatening virus to date – with 56 recoveries reported on Wednesday.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus in Guyana last year, 180,632 persons have been tested for COVID-19 with 9467 males and 9892 females returning positive results.
Of the 125 new cases recorded on Wednesday, 11 were from Region One (Barima-Waini), two from Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), 14 from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), a whopping 53 cases from Demerara-Mahaica, another two cases from Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), 24 from Region Six, four from Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) and the remaining 15 cases from Region 10 (Upper Demerara-r Berbice).
There were no new cases recorded in Regions Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) and Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) in the past 24 hours, according to Wednesday’s dashboard.
Meanwhile, 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 a 22:30h (10:30 pm) to 04:00h (4 am) national curfew that is in effect until June 30, 2021.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as of Wednesday, some 178,837,204 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 3,880,450 deaths.
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 71,055,452 while the death toll in the Region has gone up to 1,868,214. (G8)