Guyana’s COVID death toll now at 426 after 2 more die

– 83 new cases recorded

Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll has gone up to 426 after two more males who tested positive for the deadly virus died.
These latest fatalities are a 63-year-old from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) and a 71-year-old from Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice). They both died on Saturday while receiving care at medical facilities around the country.
With these, the death toll for the month of June is 28. May became the deadliest month with 99 fatalities since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus here last year after surpassing April’s 66 COVID-19 deaths.
Meanwhile, new statistics provided by the Health Ministry on Sunday showed that another 83 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 from some 1191 tests conducted in the last 24 hours.
This now takes the total number of confirmed cases in Guyana to 18,386.
However, only 1680 of these are currently active cases including 23 patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the remaining 1657 persons in isolation, that is, 115 in institutional isolation and the other 1542 in home isolation.
Additionally, there are four persons in institutional quarantine.
Some 16,280 persons have recovered from the life-threatening virus thus far – 30 more recoveries than the figure reported the previous day.
To date, 169,475 persons have been tested for the novel coronavirus in Guyana.
Of the 83 new cases detected on Sunday, one was in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam); 12 in Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara); a whopping 42 cases in the Demerara-Mahaica region; two in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice); three cases in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne); eight in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) and the other 15 cases in the Upper Demerara-Berbice region.
There were no new cases recorded in Regions One (Barima-Waini), Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) and Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) in the last 24 hours, according to Sunday’s dashboard.
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.
So far, more than 216,800 persons in the adult population have received their first dose of the vaccine. Fully immunised persons in the country stand at over 83,000.
Persons are encouraged to get immunised since the COVID-19 vaccine gives full protection against death.
In fact, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony has disclosed that none of the persons who have died after testing positive for the novel coronavirus had their full vaccination.
Meanwhile, 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.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as of Sunday, some 175,306,598 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 3,792,777 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 69,519,254 while the death toll in the region has gone up to 1,826,772.