Unvaccinated Region 4 woman dies from COVID

– 59 new infections detected

Another person has lost their life to COVID-19 in Guyana, bringing the death toll up to 1267.
The Health Ministry on Monday announced the latest death was a 59-year-old woman from Region Four, who died on Monday. She was not vaccinated.
Statistics also showed a jump in new cases by 59 within one day. Confirmed cases are now at 68,972 – a breakdown of 31,626 males and 37,346 females.
An analysis of new positives reflects two for Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam); 23 in Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica); two in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice); six in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne); and 26 in Region Nine (Upper Demerara-Berbice).
There are three patients in the Intensive Care Unit, 38 in institutional isolation, 978 in home isolation and five in institutional quarantine. Recovered cases have reached 66,683 with some 670,394 samples tested for the virus.
Over 1000 active cases are being monitored across the country.
“Generally, we have seen a very slow uptake of vaccination,” Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony commented on Monday in the COVID-19 update when asked about the country’s immunisation progress against the deadly virus.
Vaccination figures show that so far, 444,468 or 86.6 per cent of adults have taken a first dose, while some 344,228 or 67.1 per cent of persons 18 years and over are fully vaccinated.
For adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, 35,227 first doses or 48.3 per cent and 25,799 or 35.3 per cent second doses have been administered.
Vaccination for children in the five to 11 category shows 5080 first doses or five per cent. Only 596 or 0.6 per cent have returned for their second shot. In addition, 70,125 persons have returned for their booster shots thus far.
According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recent figures, some 559,469,605 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 6,361,157 deaths.
In the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 166,308,661 while the death toll in the region has gone up to 2,773,046.
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.