Latest update June 17th, 2025 12:40 AM
Latest News
- Jagdeo skirts question on Guyana’s 50% profit share with Exxon
- 30 killed by Israeli fire near Gaza aid sites, Hamas-run ministry says
- Police tell Adriana’s family: ‘Not standard practice to disclose autopsy or investigation reports’
- Bikers killed in Canje collision
- Berbice man feared drowned in Linden
Six-day-old baby is country’s latest COVID-19 fatality
Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday reported that a six-day-old male infant from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) succumbed due to COVID-19. The Ministry in its statement said that the infant died while being treated at a medical facility and his death was recorded as Guyana’s 150th COVID-19 fatality.
It was not revealed whether the child’s mother tested positive for the virus, and efforts made by this publication to contact health officials were futile yesterday.
Additionally, the Ministry recorded 38 new COVID-19 cases, pushing the total number of confirmed cases to 5,376 as indicated in its dashboard update.
The dashboard also revealed that three persons are in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, 75 are in institutional isolation, 43 are in institutional quarantine and 782 are in approved home isolation.
To date, 29,752 persons have been tested for COVID-19 countrywide and 4,346 recoveries have been recorded.
Similar Articles
THE BLUNT OF THE DAY
Sports
Features/Columnists
Time to treat our elderly with dignity
Kaieteur News – They raised us. They worked for us. They fed us. And in the end, too many of them are abandoned. The... more
Antigua and Barbuda hosts the OAS at a crucial juncture for the Americas
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – The 55th Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organisation of American... more
Weekend Cartoon
