4 COVID deaths recorded in 1 week, 3 in ICU

…673 new cases in 24 hours

Throughout the past week, a whopping 673 cases were detected across nine administrative regions in the country.
Data provided by the Health Ministry last Sunday showed confirmed cases at 68,194. On Saturday, this number moved to 68,194 – reflecting 31,687 males and 37,280 females.
The dashboard, reflecting Saturday’s figures, showed 137 new positives detected while deaths remained at 1264. In one week, four persons succumbed to the virus.
There are three persons in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 37 in institutional isolation, 974 in home isolation and zero in institutional isolation. Active cases have surpassed 1000.
In examining new positives, the figures reflect one for Region One (Barima-Waini), three for Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), five for Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), 75 for Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), one for Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), eight for Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), 39 for Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) and five for Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice).
Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) has not witnessed any increases. Authorities have suspected that it might be due to reduced testing in the region, since persons are not presenting themselves at the sites.
Moreover, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony shared on Friday that due to a lot of persons doing self-testing, the actual COVID infections are not reflected in the Ministry’s records.
“If they test positive, they do not necessarily report it to us…It is probably an underestimate of the actual cases that we have. I just want people to understand that. We’re seeing this in other countries too,” he shared.
Meanwhile, 66,589 infected persons have recovered completely. The country has since processed 669,716 tests for COVID.

Vaccination
Latest vaccination figures show that so far, over 442,200 or 86.6 per cent of adults have taken a first dose, while some 344,000 or 67.1 per cent of persons 18 years and over are fully vaccinated.
For adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, more than 25,700 or 35.3 per cent are fully vaccinated. Vaccination for children in the five to 11 categories showed over 4000 first doses or 4.5 per cent. In addition, more than 69,700 persons have returned for their booster shots thus far.
According to the World Health Organisation’s recent figures, some 557,917,904 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 6,358,899 deaths.
In the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 166,308,606 while the death toll in the region has gone up to 2,773,046.
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. (G12)