Another COVID-19 death recorded

… 5 new cases, 132 active

The Public Health Ministry has confirmed that Guyana has registered its 18th COVID-19 related death, along with five new cases.
Dead is 74-year-old Milton Paul, of Campbellville Housing Scheme, Georgetown. Guyana Times understands that the man died at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Sunday shortly after he was tested for COVID-19. The result of the test was returned after he died, but the Public Health Ministry only confirmed his death on Wednesday to the media. This publication was told that the pensioner was taken to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit of the medical facility, and was later transferred to the transition ward where he died.
This comes almost four days after the last COVID-19 death and just over four months after the country’s first case on March 11.
Guyana has also recorded five more confirmed COVID-19 cases. These cases have been recorded in Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica); Region One (Barima-Waini,), and Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam). They have now brought the number of confirmed cases to 313.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMO), Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle on Wednesday announced that there were 132 active cases in institutional isolation, 10 persons in institutional quarantine and five patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Meanwhile, the number of recovered cases remains at 156.
Guyana’s 17th COVID-19 fatality, which was recorded on July 11, was Geerjadai Jagnarine, 69, of Lot 408 Seventh Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD). She died three days after she was transferred from the Georgetown Public Hospital ICU to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, where she was said to be recovering.
Prior to Jagnarine’s death, the country’s 16th COVID-19 fatality was 76-year-old May Portsmouth, who hailed from Friendship, ECD. Portsmouth succumbed while receiving treatment in the ICU at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
About 24 hours before Portsmouth’s death, Donna Ambrose, a 25-year-old teacher of Lethem, Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), was recorded as Guyana’s 15th COVID-19 victim. The country’s 14th COVID-19 death was that of 34-year-old Abdool Khan of Bartica, who died while receiving medical treatment at the ICU.
On June 29, 42-year-old Kevin Ridley of Albouystown, Georgetown died. Based on reports, Ridley was admitted to the A&E Unit after he was unable to breathe as usual.
After conducting a COVID-19 test, doctors at the hospital found that Ridley was positive, he died shortly after arriving at the hospital.
In a subsequent COVID-19 daily update, Dr Gordon-Boyle underscored that Guyana, a country with fewer than one million people, has recorded a “very high” COVID-19 death rate. (G9)