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Dec 14, 2021 News
Kaieteur New – The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that three more persons, who contracted the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, have died. As a result of this, the country’s COVID-19 death toll has moved to 1,023.
The country’s latest fatalities are that of two unvaccinated women, a 79-year-old from Region Five and a 75-year-old from Region Six, and a partially vaccinated man, a 54-year-old from Region 10, who died over a two-day period (December 12 and 13), while receiving treatment at a medical facility.
Meanwhile, in its daily COVID-19 dashboard, the Health Ministry recorded 14 new infections, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 38,568.
The dashboard also shows that 12 patients were admitted into a COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 40 persons in institutional isolation, 802 in home isolation, and 4 in institutional quarantine. To date, a total of 36,691 persons have recovered from the virus.
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