Unvaccinated Reg 4 man is Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatality

The Health Ministry on Friday reported that an unvaccinated Region Four resident is Guyana’s latest COVID-19 death.
The deceased is a 70-year-old who succumbed on Thursday, September 1. This recent fatality now takes the death toll to 1279.
However, new statistics released by the Ministry showed that 14 new coronavirus infections have been detected, taking the confirmed cases to 71,076. Two persons are in institutional isolation, 209 in home isolation and one in institutional quarantine. There are two patients in the Intensive Care Unit.
Additionally, 69,579 persons have recovered while 688,648 tests have been processed to date.
An analysis shows new cases dispersed among four administrative regions, with one in Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara); 10 in Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica); two in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) and one in Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice). There were no new reported cases in the other regions.
Vaccination figures show that so far, 446,000 or 86.9 per cent of adults have taken a first dose, while some 345,757 or 67.4 per cent of persons are fully vaccinated.
For adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, 35,588 first doses or 48.7 per cent and 26,091 or 35.7 per cent second doses have been administered.
Vaccination for children in the five to 11 category shows 7844 first doses or 7.7 per cent. Only 3105 or three per cent have returned for their second shot. In addition, 72,526 persons have returned for their booster shots thus far.
In the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 175 million while the death toll in the Region has gone up to 2.8 million.
Globally, there are 601 million confirmed positives with 6.4 million deaths.
If anyone is displaying any of the symptoms associated with COVID-19 or needs any additional information, they are asked to contact the COVID-19 Hotline 231-1166, 226-7480 or 624-6674 immediately or visit www.health.gov.gy.