COVID-19 deaths move to 243 – Health officials warn of more deadly virus outbreak affecting younger, healthier people
Radio Kaieteur – Even as the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced two more deaths as a result of the COVID-19 virus yesterday, health officials are warning of a more deadly bite of the virus affecting younger, healthier people without any existing conditions or co-morbidity.
As a result, the Ministry is looking to increase its immunization campaign by establishing at least 100 vaccination sites across the country as well as establishing mobile teams to help get people vaccinated.
While efforts are being made for this to be completed by April 6, 2021, the Ministry of Health continues to record a spike in the daily incidence of infections. In the past week, at least 500 new cases have been reported across the different regions of the country.
Region Four remains ahead for the highest number of COVID-19 cases with 5016 cases to date.
As of yesterday, Guyana’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 were 10,580.
The MOH recorded a total of 40 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, Region Four accounting for 21 of those cases; Region Seven with nine new infections; Region Six with eight new cases; and Regions Ten and Two recorded one new case each.
The Ministry also revealed that their most recent deaths are two men, a 73-year-old man from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) and another 62-year-old from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), both of whom died while being cared for at a medical facility . Those deaths took the resulting deaths from COVID-19 to 243.
There are also reports of four additional COVID-19 deaths within the space of the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health said 9,250 people have so far recovered from the deadly disease. There are also 1,075 unaccompanied people in the home, 74 patients are institutionalized and 12 patients are in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Infectious Disease Hospital.