26 new COVID-19 cases detected in 24 hours

The Health Ministry on Tuesday reported that 26 new COVID cases were detected within a 24-hour period, thus taking the total infections in Guyana to 70,841.
The death toll remains at 1278. According to statistics, two persons are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Liliendaal facility. In addition, 10 persons are in institutional isolation, 309 in home isolation and seven in institutional quarantine.
The statistics also showed that 69,242 persons have recovered and 680,240 tests were processed to date. Guyana has 321 active cases with 12 persons in hospitalisation. Regions Three, Four and Seven are the hotspot areas currently.
“We keep monitoring. One of the things I keep emphasising is that we’d only be able to detect cases if we are testing people. If a lot of people are not coming forward to be tested, then we wouldn’t have an accurate picture of what is happening in the region. In many of these regions, people are not coming forward to be tested, although they have signs and symptoms,” Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony underlined.
Most recent vaccination figures show that so far, 445,755 or 86.9 per cent of adults have taken a first dose, while some 345,481 or 67.3 per cent of persons are fully vaccinated.
For adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, 35,552 first doses or 48.7 per cent and 26,049 or 35.7 per cent second doses have been administered.
Vaccination for children in the five to 11 category shows 7681 first doses or 7.5 per cent. Only 2818 or 2.8 per cent have returned for their second shot. In addition, 72,144 persons have returned for their booster shots thus far.
In the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 173 million while the death toll in the region has gone up to 2.9 million.
Globally, there were 590 million confirmed positives with 6.4 million deaths.
If anyone is displaying any of the symptoms associated with COVID-19 or needs any additional information, they are asked to contact the COVID-19 Hotline 231-1166, 226-7480 or 624-6674 immediately or visit www.health.gov.gy.