Guyana on Saturday recorded its 12th death as a result of COVID-19 complications.
Seventy-eight-year-old John Damon, a former patient of the Palms Geriatric Home died at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital at around 00:40hrs on Saturday.
Mr Damon, who had multiple complications, is also the second patient from the Palms to have died from COVID-19.
He was one of two persons at the COVID-19 ICU at the time.
Twelve persons were tested positive for the disease at the Palms following the death of its first patient – a 63-year-old man who was tested after he died –on May 01.
150 persons have so far tested positive for COVID-19 in Guyana.
Of that amount, there are 71 active cases and 67 recoveries.
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