Two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died. This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 1058. The latest fatalities are two fully vaccinated men: a 60-year-old from Region Four and a 38-year-old, Region Six resident.
Guyana also recorded 485 new cases, taking the number of confirmed infections since March 2020 to 40,639.
There are eight persons in the intensive care unit, 62 institutionally isolated, 1,715 in home isolation, and six in institutional quarantine.
So far, 37,796 persons have recovered. Health officials have conducted 432,785 tests since Guyana confirmed its first imported case back in March 2020.
