25 new COVID cases recorded

Twenty-five more people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours after 314 tests were conducted, the Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday.

The infected persons are from Region One (five cases), Region Three (one case), Region Four (14 cases), Region Six (three cases) and Region Nine (two cases).

With these new cases, a total of 71,679 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 six persons in institutional isolation and 155 persons in home isolation.

To date, 70, 233 persons have recovered after they were diagnosed with the disease while 1, 285 have died.