–pushing number of confirmed cases past the 800 mark

GUYANA recorded a massive 70 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, the highest daily record to date, while another six persons have been transferred to the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), taking the country’s total number of confirmed cases to 846.
After weeks of Hinterland Regions leading in the discovery of new cases, Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) has returned to the forefront, accounting for 26 of the new cases, bringing the Region’s total confirmed cases to date to 248.
Coming a close second is Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice) with 16 of the new cases; followed by Region One (Barima-Waini) with 10; Regions Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) and Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) with five each; and Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) with four.

Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) has two new cases; and Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) just one.

The 70 new cases add to the 68 cases that the country had recorded so far for this week, and comes on the heels of four successive COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities to 29. There are now eight persons in the COVID-19 ICU.
The new 70 cases were discovered after an additional 205 persons were tested in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of persons to have been tested to 6502. The 70 new cases were preceded by 40 new ones on Wednesday and 28 on Tuesday.
Thursday’s statistics have shown that the country also recorded 18 new recoveries, bringing the total number of recovered cases to 399.
Some 333 persons are currently on home isolation, while 77 are in institutional isolation, and another 47 are in institutional quarantine.