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Region Four woman is country’s latest COVID-19 fatality
Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday announced that a 70-year-old woman from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, has died.
As a result of this, the country’s COVID-19 death toll has moved to 513.
The Ministry reported that the woman succumbed on Sunday while receiving treatment at a medical facility.
Further, the Health Ministry in its daily COVID-19 dashboard recorded 44 new COVID-19 infections, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 21,606. Out of the confirmed cases, 11,055 persons are women while 10,551 are men.
Presently, there are 12 patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 107 in institutional isolation, 1,111 in home isolation and two in institutional quarantine. To date, a total of 19,863 persons have recovered from the virus.
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