Sixty two positive cases over the weekend have taken Guam's Covid-19 numbers to 4690 cases, including 79 fatalities.
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The most recent death was on Friday, a 63 year old man with underlying health conditions.
Meanwhile the Guam Memorial Hospital had increased bed capacity with one so-called Blu-Med Tent and 10 Fast Beds to address the increase in hospitalisations resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
Guam had 10 Blu-Med Tents ready to deploy as needed which were were purchased with federal funding in anticipation of increased demand.
There are 1945 active cases of the coronavirus.
PNG Covid-19 cases inch towards 600
Meanwhile Papua New Guinea has confirmed another case of Covid-19 in the capital Port Moresby.
Health authorities said the number of cases of the coronavirus in the National Capital District now stood at 343
Nationally, the total number of confirmed cases wa590, with seven Cvid-related deaths reported so far.
However testing for the virus hadbeen minimal in PNG, with little over 27,000 tests conducted since the pandemic began.
