Another person, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), has died. This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 459. The latest fatality is a 59-year-old male from Region 4 (Demerara-Mahaica) who died while receiving care at a medical facility.
Guyana has also recorded an additional 109 cases of the virus. This takes the number of those infected since Guyana imported it’s first case in March 2020, to 19,674.
Also, there are 17 persons in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 99 in institutional isolation, 1,473 in home isolation, and one in quarantine.
Some 183,048 tests have been conducted to date.
