90 new COVID-19 cases recorded; 50 in Region Four

A total of 90 new COVID-19 cases were recorded on Wednesday of which 50 were recorded in Region Four.

The overall total number of cases have moved to 1,703 including 48 deaths.

The Ministry of Health in its daily dashboard reported that 21 of the new cases were recorded in Region One, one in Region Two, six in Region Three, fifty in Region Four, three in Region Five, three in Region Seven, four in Region Nine and two in Region Ten.

Region Four has the most cases –648 – since its first imported case of the disease was recorded on March 11 closely followed by Region Nine with a total of 300 cases.

There are currently 594 persons in isolation and 16 in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

There are 68 suspected cases in quarantine while 1,045 persons have so far recovered.

So far, 10,345 persons were tested for COVID-19.