Active cases now at 731 with 44 new infections

…no deathssss reported

Some 44 new COVID-19 infections were detected within a 24-hour period, according to the Ministry of Health’s updated dashboard for Thursday.
With this, the total number of confirmed cases has gone up to 39,042 but only 731 of these are currently active cases. This includes seven patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the remaining 724 persons in isolation, that is, 32 in institutional isolation and the other 692 in home isolation.
Additionally, there are also six more persons in institutional quarantine.
The COVID-19 death toll remains at 1042 after no fatalities were reported.
To date, some 37,269 persons have recovered from the life-threatening virus – 24 more recoveries than the figures reported the previous day.
Meanwhile, approximately 417,327 persons have been tested for the novel coronavirus to date and of this amount, 18,417 males and 20,625 females were found to be positive.
Of the 44 new cases recorded on Thursday, one was from Region One (Barima-Waini), five cases from Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), another one from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), a whopping 21 cases from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), 12 from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) and the remaining four cases from Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice).
There were no new cases recorded in Regions Five (Mahaica-Berbice), Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), and Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo).
In order to curb the rising number of cases in the country, the Guyana Government launched its COVID-19 vaccination exercise back in February and is aggressively rolling it out across the various regions in order to achieve herd immunity. In fact, it has also started administering booster shots.
The latest vaccination figures show that over 440,000 adults have received a first dose vaccine while more than 314,000 are fully immunised.
With regards to adolescents, approximately 30,198 got their first dose and some 21,503 are fully vaccinated.
In addition, over 10,400 booster shots have been administered to the adult population.
Persons are encouraged to get immunised since the COVID-19 vaccine provides a layer of protection against severe symptoms of the deadly COVID-19.
Nevertheless, 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 vaccination requirements to access any public building such as restaurants, places of worship, schools as well as Government buildings.