28 COVID-19 related deaths in one week

Guyana has recorded twenty-eight COVID-19 deaths from October 01-08, according to the Ministry of Health. The total includes four persons who were partially vaccinated while 24 were unvaccinated against the virus.

The total number of deaths from the pandemic lies at 825 since March 11, 2020.

The Ministry has noted that all of the patients who have died were admitted with COVID-19 like symptoms but died while receiving care at a medical institution.

In addition to the 28 persons who died this month, the Ministry also recorded six additional deaths; those persons died in August and September but were not recorded as COVID-19 deaths. Samples were taken at the time of admission which subsequently returned positive tests.

The youngest patient to have died recently from the disease was a 38-year-old female who died on September 30 with the oldest being a 93-year-old female who died on October 06.

On Friday, October 08, the Ministry reported that 30 persons are in its COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) while 162 new cases of the disease were confirmed.

The details on the latest fatalities are below as released by the Ministry of Health from October 01-08, 2021: