Active COVID-19 cases now at 156 after 11 new infections

The Ministry of Health reported in its updated COVID-19 dashboard for Sunday that 11 more persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
These latest infections are six males and five females, who were found positive from some 704 tests conducted within a 24-hour period.
With this, the total number of confirmed cases in Guyana has now gone up to 63,194.
Of this, however, only 156 cases are currently active including five patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the remaining 151 persons in isolation, that is, 12 persons in institutional isolation and the other 139 in home isolation.
Another 12 persons are also in institutional quarantine.
The Health Ministry did not report any new fatalities on Sunday hence the country’s COVID-19 death toll remains at 1226. The last COVID fatality reported was the death of an 83-year-old female from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), who died on March 15. She was fully vaccinated.
To date, some 61,812 persons have recovered from the life-threatening disease in the country.
Meanwhile, since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Guyana, a total 559,578 tests have been conducted countrywide and of this, some 29,099 males and 34,095 females were found to be positive.
Of the 11 new cases detected on Sunday, eight were from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), one from Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), another one from the East Berbice-Corentyne region, and the remaining one case from Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice)
There were no new cases in the other six regions across the country within the reporting 24-hour period.
This declining trend in COVID-19 cases has resulted in the Guyana Government last week removing most restrictions as the country moves to recover from the pandemic and return to normalcy.
But while mandates such as masking in public and social distancing are no longer in place, health authorities are still encouraging persons to get vaccinated, and for those who are qualified to get their booster shots, in order to add a layer of protection against the virus.
Latest figures show that so far, more than 436,886 or 85.2 per cent of adults have taken a first dose and of that amount, some 334,537 or 65.2 per cent of persons 18 years and over are fully vaccinated.
For adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, approximately 34,144 or 46.8 per cent of them have received their first dose, while some 24,780 or 34 per cent of them are fully immunised.
In addition, in excess of 55,722 persons have returned for their booster shots thus far.
According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) recent figures, some 464,809,377 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 6,062,536 deaths.
In the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 149,435,827 while the death toll in the region has gone up to 2,667,880.
As it relates to vaccination against COVID-19, the WHO also reported that a total of 10,925,055,390 doses have been administered worldwide.