A total of 48 persons cases of the novel coronavirus has now been reported in Guyana, after one more person tested positive.
The Public Health Ministry disclosed on Tuesday that 224 persons have been tested so far, with deaths remaining at six. From this number, 176 tests were negative and eight persons would have recovered.
The number of persons in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation remained at five, with 21 persons in institutional quarantine and 34 in institutional isolation.
Of the positive COVID-19 cases, four were imported while the remaining 44 were transmitted locally. In Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), 86 per cent of these cases were detected, with 14 from the East Coast Demerara, five from the East Bank Demerara and 17 from Central Georgetown.
Meanwhile, two percent was found in Regions One (Barima Waini) and Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), and five per cent in Regions Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) and Ten (Upper Demerara-Berbice).
From the positively identified cases, the makeup was 60 per cent male and 40 per cent female.
Statistics from the World Health Organisation shows that there are 1, 773, 084 confirmed cases globally with 111, 652 deaths while in the Americas, there are 610, 742 confirmed cases with 23, 759 deaths.
According to the WHO, coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a new strain that was discovered in 2019 that had not been previously identified in humans. Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people.
Common signs of infection include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath, and breathing difficulties. In more severe cases, the infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure, and even death.
Guyana Times had reported that 27-year-old Suraj Baboolal, who was among the first set of persons to test positive, had made a recovery from the deadly virus.
The young man, along with three other family members, had tested positive for the potentially deadly infectious disease and were in a Government isolation facility for some 22 days.
Other relatives, who tested negative, were quarantined due to their exposure to the country’s first imported case of COVID-19. Suraj along with his father and brother were cleared to go home, after having recovered from the virus and have since said that they feel lucky to have overcome COVID-19.
