6 new COVID-19 cases from over 800 tests

The trend of lowered COVID cases is continuing, as the Health Ministry reported only six new cases for Saturday. This was detected from 838 tests that were sent for analysis.
Updated statistics via the Health Ministry’s dashboard has shown one patient in the Intensive Care Unit, 88 persons in home isolation, four in institutional isolation and 32 in institutional quarantine.
There are 62,092 recoveries from the 29,186 males and 34,227 females who tested positive. COVID-19 tests have amounted to 590,638 since the virus was first detected here.
Most recent vaccination statistics show that 439,616 or 85.7 per cent of adults have taken a first dose and of that amount, some 338,785 or 66 per cent are fully vaccinated.
For adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, approximately 34,475 or 47.3 per cent of them have received their first dose, while some 25,217 or 34.6 per cent of them are fully immunised.
In addition, 61,347 persons have returned for their booster shots thus far.
During the past year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had reported over 70 different types of outbreaks, which were being tracked. Most do not require significant efforts to contain or address. Systems have been activated to track emergency diseases.
Recently, children in the United Kingdom were presenting signs of Hepatitis. When an analysis was done, the specific virus causing Hepatitis could not be determined. It has been classified as Hepatitis of an unknown type as officials await further investigation. Similar cases have surfaced in other countries within Europe.
Commenting on the matter on Friday was Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony, who explained, “It’s totally unrelated to COVID. At least, that’s the thinking at this point in time. Like with everything else, this is one of those diseases that would be thoroughly investigated and we’ll see what the results would be. We haven’t seen anything like that in Guyana but we’ll continue to monitor and see what other issues might pop up.”
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.
Global figures show that almost 505.8 million people have tested positive for the virus and 6.2 million have died. In the Americas, more than 152 million confirmed cases have been reported with over 2.7 million deaths. (G12)