Active COVID-19 cases down to almost 100

Guyana’s active COVID-19 infections have been on a decreasing trend, with only 105 cases being monitored as of Friday.
According to the health Ministry’s dashboard, seven new cases were detected. There are 71,311 confirmed cases – 32,682 males and 38,629 females.
No one is under intensive care treatment. There are five persons in institutional isolation, 100 in home isolation, and zero in institutional quarantine. The country’s death toll also remains at 1281. Meanwhile, 69,925 persons have recovered while 694,087 persons have been tested to date.
This week, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony advised that persons should update their protection with booster doses, amid the detection of newer COVID strains.
“What we will have to do is learn to live with the virus and at regular intervals, be boosted with the boosters that are becoming available. That’s one of the reasons they’re now changing to develop bivalent vaccines that would have parts of the ancestral strain and the circulating strain,” he had vocalised.
This week, as the third UNGA of the COVID-19 pandemic was convened, it was highlighted that many countries are far from meeting global targets on vaccination coverage, testing rates, and access to treatments and PPE. The co-chairs of the ACT-Accelerator’s Council Tracking and Accelerating Progress Working Group warned that coordinated action, sustained political will, and funding commitments are still needed, to save lives and combat the ongoing threat of COVID-19.
The working group noted with concern that COVID-19 vaccination rates in low-income countries stand at 19 per cent, compared to almost 75 per cent in high-income countries. It added that the roll-out of new lifesaving COVID-19 treatments including oral antivirals in low and lower-middle-income countries remains limited or non-existent.
According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) figures, some 609 million confirmed cases were reported globally along with 6.5 million deaths.
In the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 177 million while the death toll in the Region has gone up to 2.8 million deaths.
Symptoms of the coronavirus include fever, cough, tiredness, diarrhoea, pains, sore throat, and loss of taste or smell. The more serious symptoms are difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, chest pain, and loss of speech or movement.
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.