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Oct 29, 2021 News
Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that four more persons, who contracted the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, have died. As a result of this, the country’s COVID-19 dashboard has moved to 904.
According to the Health Ministry, the country’s latest fatalities involve three unvaccinated persons and a fully vaccinated person, who all died between October 22 and October 28 last, while receiving treatment at a medical institution.
Those who succumbed to the virus were: two men, a 64-year-old from Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) and a 67-year-old from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) and two women, a 56-year-old and a 58-year-old from Region Four.
Further, in its latest COVID-19 dashboard, the Ministry recorded 98 new cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 35,350.
The dashboard also shows that 23 patients were admitted into the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), with another 70 in institutional isolation, plus 2,832 in home isolation, and 10 in institutional quarantine. To date, a total of 31,521 recoveries have been recorded.

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