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Three more die of COVID-19
Kaieteur News – Three persons who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) have died. According to the Ministry of Health (MoH), the latest fatalities are that of a 72-year-old man from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), a 65-year-old woman from Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) and a 97-year-old woman from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica).
The Health Ministry in its press release said their deaths have increased the country’s COVID-19 death toll to 422. All three persons died over a three-day period while receiving treatment at a medical facility.
Further, the Ministry in its daily COVID-19 dashboard recorded 108 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 18,196.
The dashboard also shows that 21 patients are in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 102 persons are in institutional isolation, 1,541 in home isolation and three persons are quarantined institutionally. To date, a total of 16,110 recoveries have been recorded.
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