Another eight persons infected with COVID

Eight more people- three females and five males- tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health reported on Sunday

These new cases were recorded after 117 COVID-19 tests were conducted. The infected persons are from Region Three (two cases), Region Four (five cases) and Region 10 (one case).

With these new cases, a total of 71,650 cases have been recorded in Guyana since March 2020.

Meanwhile, there are no patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) but there are seven persons in institutional isolation and 129 persons in home isolation.

To date, 70, 229 persons have recovered after they were diagnosed with the disease while 1, 285 have died.