The Health Ministry has announced that another 86 persons have been infected with COVID-19 as of Tuesday.
An updated dashboard reflected 69,058 confirmed cases to date; accounting for 31,388 males and 37,388 females. The death toll remained at 1267.
There are four persons in the Intensive Care Unit, 26 in institutional isolation, 886 in home isolation and one person in institutional quarantine. Additionally, 66,875 persons have recovered completely. The country has processed 671,014 tests to date.
New cases have been detected in eight administrative regions, with a breakdown of 16 for Region One (Barima-Waini), two for Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), nine for Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), 40 for Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), two for Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), one Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), 21 for Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) and five for Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice).
Vaccination figures show that so far, 444,468 or 86.6 per cent of adults have taken a first dose, while some 344,228 or 67.1 per cent of persons 18 years and over are fully vaccinated.
For adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, 35,227 first doses or 48.3 per cent and 25,799 or 35.3 per cent second doses have been administered.
Vaccination for children in the five to 11 category shows 5080 first doses or five per cent. Only 596 or 0.6 per cent have returned for their second shot. In addition, 70,125 persons have returned for their booster shots thus far.
According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recent figures, some 559,469,605 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 6,361,157 deaths.
In the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 166,308,661 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)
