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Two more COVID fatalities
The Ministry of Health yesterday announced that two more persons have died from COVID-19 and that there are 52 new cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 3,521.
“The latest fatalities,” stated an update from the Ministry last evening, “are a 62-year-old male and a 47-year-old female, both from Region 4 (Demerara-Mahaica). These persons died while receiving care at our medical facility. The MOH expresses sincerest condolences to the families of the two deceased and will make every effort to provide all the necessary support during this difficult time to render any assistance needed.”
The news of the deaths, coming late last night, would not have been reflected in the Ministry’s daily COVID-19 Dashboard update which stated that there are currently 16 persons in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, 118 persons in institutional isolation, 892 persons in approved home isolation and 58 persons in institutional quarantine. It was not clear whether two persons who died were from the 16 housed in the ICU.
The COVID-19 death toll currently stands at 106 and out of the 16,080 COVID-19 tests conducted to date, 12,559 persons tested negative. A total of 2,391 persons have recovered from COVID-19 to date.
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