3 more die from COVID-19, 123 new cases recorded

Guyana’s death toll from the novel coronavirus has gone up to 447 after three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) died.
Among these latest fatalities is a 43-year-old female from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), who died on Friday last. The other two deaths are males, aged 66 and 73, from Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), both of whom died on Thursday last.
The Health Ministry on Sunday stated that the patients were admitted with COVID-19 like symptoms but died while receiving care at various medical institutions across the country. As such, samples were taken from them at the time of their admission, which subsequently returned positive tests.
Meanwhile, new statistics provided by the Ministry showed that some 123 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 within a 24-hour period.
This now takes the total number of confirmed cases in Guyana to 19,096 – 9338 males and 9758 females.
However, only 1576 of these are currently active cases. This includes 21 patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the other 1555 persons in isolation, that is, 107 in institutional isolation and the remaining 1448 persons in home isolation. There is also one more person in institutional quarantine.
Additionally, some 17,073 persons have recovered from the life-threatening virus to date – 26 more recoveries than the figure reported the previous day.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic in Guyana last year, 176,574 persons have been tested for COVID-19 thus far.
Of the 123 new cases recorded on Sunday, nine were from Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam); 16 from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara); 37 cases from the Demerara-Mahaica region; six from Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice); 20 cases from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), another 32 cases from the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region and the other three cases from Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice).
No new cases were recorded in Regions One (Barima-Waini), Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) and Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), according to the new statistics.
The Guyana Government launched its COVID-19 vaccination exercise back in February and is aggressively rolling it out in the various regions in order to achieve heard immunity.
Recent data shows that more than 227,000 persons in the adult population have received their first dose of the vaccine. Fully immunised persons in the country stand at over 98,000.
Persons are encouraged to get immunised since the COVID-19 vaccine gives full protection against death. In fact, health authorities have disclosed that no one who is fully vaccinated with both doses of the COVID-19 vaccines has been hospitalised or died from the virus.
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 Sunday, some 177,108,695 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 3,840,223 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 70,303,157 while the death toll in the region has gone up to 1,848,197.