– 101 new cases were recorded in 24h
– national curfew extended to April 30, 2021
Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll has gone up to 271 as three other men who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) died. 
These latest deaths are a 69-year-old man from Region Three (Essequibo-West Demerara Islands), an 80-year-old man from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) and a 62-year-old man from Region Four (Demerara -Mahaica). They all died on Saturday while being cared for in medical facilities.
With these, the total number of COVID-19 deaths so far for April is 28, of which 15 were recorded last week alone. The most recent death was recorded on Friday when an 81-year-old girl from Region Four died.
Meanwhile, about 101 new COVID-19 cases were detected in the last 24 hours.
According to new statistics provided by the Ministry of Health on Sunday, the total confirmed cases in Guyana have skyrocketed to 11,863 – 6002 men and 5861 women.
However, 1412 of these are currently active cases. These include 12 patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the remaining 1400 people separately, that is, 74 separate institutionally and the remaining 1326 separately. to the home.
There are also 15 people in institutional quarantine.
Moreover, the number of people who have recovered from the life-threatening disease in the country so far has increased to 10,180 – 19 more recoveries than the figure reported the previous day.
A total of 107,974 people have been tested for the new coronavirus in Guyana since March 2020.
Of the 101 new cases reported on Sunday, one was found in Region One (Barima-Waini); two in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam); 10 in Region Three (Essequibo-West Demerara Islands), namely 57 cases in the Demerara-Mahaica region; four in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice); two other cases in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne); 5 in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni); 18 in Region Nine (Upper Essequibo-Takutu) and the remaining two cases in Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice).
The figure in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) remained the same.
The increasing number of COVID-19 cases and death toll comes as local authorities continue to struggle with a new wave of the new coronavirus that sees a higher number of young people catching the virus, and infected people getting sick with some need to go to hospital.
To curb the spread of the virus and reduce the country’s death toll from the pandemic, Guyana launched its vaccination campaign in February and has so far vaccinated more than 70,000 people. In addition, hundreds of people have also received their second-dose shootings.
Only Friday, the Government extended the vaccination exercise to people aged 18 and over. Since then, scores of young people have been flocking vaccination sites across the country for immunization.
To date, Guyana has received 3000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from Barbados, another 80,000 doses of the same injection from India and 20,000 doses of Sinopharm from China – all donations.
Subsequently, the country collected its first tranche of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility – 24,000 doses of AstraZeneca and another batch is expected to arrive next month.
Further, the Government has purchased 200,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia up to about US $ 4 million, through the UAE. Of these, Guyana has already received 55,000 doses of the injection done in Russian and another 83,000 are slated to arrive early this week.
Meanwhile, health authorities are reminding all Guyanese to adhere to the COVID-19 (No. 16) Emergency Measures protocols, which were extended for this month and will be in effect until April 30, 2021.
Among these measures is the national curfew 22: 30h (10:30 pm) to 04:00h (4 am), which reminded the COVID-19 National Task Force in a statement Sunday in its entirety and warned that those who fail to adherence to guidelines.
He also reinforced that only essential services are authorized to operate on a 24-hour basis and that other services and businesses are required to close operations by 21:30h (09:30 pm) to facilitate employees arriving home by curfew time .
Restaurants and places of worship have been approved to operate at 40 percent capacity. Gymnasiums will operate up to 50 percent while sporting events are permitted with the approval of the Health Minister only.
The order further emphasizes the need to use a face mask correctly and consistently when leaving home; the importance of maintaining the physical distance of six feet from others, and the need for good hand hygiene to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), on Sunday, there were about 140,322,903 confirmed cases worldwide along with 3,003,794 deaths.
WHO also reported on Sunday, in the American Region, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 59,550,930 while the death toll in the region has increased to 1,444,736.
