Guyana records 29 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours

– no new fatality reported, death toll remains at 492

A total of 29 new cases of the novel coronavirus have been detected during a 24-hour period from the 55 tests that were conducted.
According to new statistics provided by the Ministry on Sunday, the total number of confirmed cases in Guyana now stand at 20,953.
However, only 1408 of these are currently active cases including 11 patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the remaining 1397 persons in isolation, that is, 84 in home isolation and other 1313 in institutional isolation.
Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll remains at 492 after no fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours.
On Saturday, the Health Ministry reported that a 102-year-old woman from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) who died on July 9, along with a 67-year-old man also from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) and a 60-year-old man from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), both of whom died on July 8, were the latest fatalities.
Since the beginning of July, 16 persons have succumbed to the life-threatening disease. The total number of deaths from the pandemic in the month of June is 78. May is the deadliest month with 99 COVID-19 fatalities after surpassing April’s death toll of 66.
Additionally, some 19,053 persons have recovered from the life-threatening virus to date – 505 more recoveries than the figure reported the previous day.
Meanwhile, since the outbreak of the pandemic in Guyana last year, 201,557 persons have been tested for the novel coronavirus so far of which 10,721 females and 10,232 males were positive cases.
A breakdown of 29 new cases detected on Sunday showed that three were from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), a whopping 12 cases from the Demerara-Mahaica region, two from Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) and the remaining 12 cases in the East Berbice-Corentyne region.
There were no new cases recorded in Regions One (Barima-Waini), Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) and 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) in the last 24 hours, according to Sunday’s COVID-19 dashboard.
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 in the various regions in order to achieve heard immunity.
Recent data shows that more than 237,000 persons in the adult population have received their first dose of the vaccine, while fully immunised persons, 18 years and older, in the country are now over 118,000.
Persons are encouraged to get immunised since the COVID-19 vaccine gives full protection against death. In fact, health authorities have disclosed that no one who is fully vaccinated with both doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been hospitalised or died from the virus.
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 a 22:30h (10:30 pm) to 04:00h (4 am) national curfew that is in effect until July 31, 2021.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as of Sunday, some 185,291,530 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 4,010,834 deaths.
The WHO also reported on Sunday that in the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 73,450,049 while the death toll in the region has gone up to 1,930,948.