Active COVID-19 cases up to 111 after 9 more infections detected

Nine more persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus within a 24-hour period, according to the Health Ministry on Sunday.
This took the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Guyana to 63,482.
However, only 111 of these are currently active cases including one patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the remaining 110 persons in home isolation. There are also two other persons in institutional quarantine.
Meanwhile, the COVID-19 death toll in Guyana remains at 1228 with the last fatalities recorded since April 13 when a 76-year-old male from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) and a 90-year-old female from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) died. Those were the only two fatalities recorded in April.
On the other hand, some 62,143 persons have recovered from the life-threatening virus to date.
Meanwhile, since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Guyana over two years ago, a total 597,749 tests have been conducted countrywide and of this, some 29,230 males and 34,252 females were found to be positive.
Of the nine new cases recorded on Sunday, two were from the Essequibo Islands-West Demerara region, and the remaining seven cases were from the Demerara-Mahaica region.
There were no new cases in the other eight regions across the country within the reporting 24-hour period.
This declining trend in COVID-19 cases resulted in the Guyana Government in March 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 440,282 or 85.8 per cent of adults have taken a first dose and of that amount, some 339,532 or 66.2 per cent of persons 18 years and over are fully vaccinated.
For adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, approximately 34,545 or 47.4 per cent of them have received their first dose, while some 25,268 or 34.6 per cent of them are fully immunised.
In addition, in excess of 60,000 persons have returned for their booster shots thus far.
According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recent figures, some 510,270,667 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 6,233,526 deaths.
In the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 152,929,420 while the death toll in the region has gone up to 2,722,343.
As it relates to vaccination against COVID-19, the WHO also reported that a total of 11,477,767,378 doses have been administered worldwide.