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Apr 26, 2021 News
Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday reported that three persons who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID19) have died. Their deaths now bring Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll to 284.
Dead are an 80-year-old man from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), and a 51-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman both from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara). According to the Ministry’s press release, all three persons died on Saturday while receiving treatment at a medical facility.
The Ministry also recorded 103 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 12,703. The dashboard also shows that 12 patients are in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, 73 persons are in the institutional isolation, 1,548 in home isolation and 10 persons are quarantined institutionally. To date, 10,786 recoveries have been recorded.
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