COVID-19 death toll now at 102

Oct 10, 2020 News

Kaieteur News – With four new fatalities recorded, Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll yesterday climbed to 102.

The COVID-19 dashboard

Early in the day the Ministry of Health announced that there were two deaths and these were reflected in the Ministry’s daily dashboard update. However, the other two were announced later in the day. These are not reflected on the dashboard.
The first two deaths that were announced are that of a 57-year-old male from Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) and a 43-year-old male from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara). They both died while receiving care at medical facilities on October 8, according to the Ministry. The other two deaths are that of a 28-year-old man from Region Two Pomeroon-Supenaam and a 57-year-old man from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica). They also died while receiving treatment at medical facilities yesterday, the Ministry informed.
Also, 29 new cases were recorded yesterday taking the total number of confirmed cases to 3,358.
This information was presented on the dashboard, which also states that there are 15 persons in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), 115 in institutional isolation, 948 in approved home isolation and 59 in institutional quarantine.
There have been a total of 2,180 recoveries so far.
Further, it was noted that 15,568 persons have undergone COVID-19 tests to date, and of this number 12,210 tested negative.

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