Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony says the country has had a steady COVID-19 recovery rate, with over 18,000 individuals returning to good health since the first case of the Coronavirus was discovered in March last year. Minister Anthony said that while some persons have died from Covid related complications, figures have shown that over 90% of patients have recovered.
“As you would know, we would have had about 20,645 persons as of yesterday, who would have been infected with COVID, so, since the pandemic started in Guyana, we have recorded as a total, 20,645 persons. Of those, 18, 619 have recovered, which meant that they would have gone through, whether it’s a 10-day period to mild or asymptomatic persons and then got discharged. As of today, 18, 619 have recovered, which amounts to about 90% of those who have been infected,” Minister Anthony stated.
Active COVID-19 cases currently stand at 7.4%.
VACCINATION
Meanwhile, to date, 236, 409 persons have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. This amounts to approximately 48.6% of Guyana’s adult population. For second dose and complete vaccination, 115,652 have taken the jab.
“This would put us close to 23.8 per cent of our adult population being fully vaccinated. Vaccination, at least first dose vaccination rates among older persons have been extremely high, I would say, more than 75% and the low age group because we started later, we have seen uptick in this age group, but it’s not as much as we would want it to be, and therefore we’re encouraging persons to come out and make sure that they get their vaccines.”
Also, by the ending of this week the number of additional COVID-19 vaccination sites in Region Four would increase to 10. This follows a discussion with the municipality and persons manning various health centres in Georgetown, Minister Anthony said. He said training for this was held last week.
