DPI, Guyana, Sunday, April 19, 2020
The Ministry of Public Health has confirmed that another person who tested positive the novel coronavirus has died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s ICU
This brings the total number of deaths related to COVID-19 to seven.
In their update on Saturday, the Ministry had indicated that there were five persons in the ICU.
The first case of COVID-19 was registered on March 11 was imported by a 52-year-old woman who had travelled from New York to Guyana.
To date, a total of 305 persons have been tested with 242 of those testing negative.