Georgetown: Former Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence on Wednesday announced that as of March 31, Guyana recorded 19 confirmed cases of the new Coronavirus.
This is an increase of seven cases from March 30 while deaths remains at two. The Former Health Minister said there is one positive case in Region Three, 17 confirmed cases in Region Four, one case in Region Six and one inconclusive test result.
She revealed that 70 persons were tested for the disease of which 50 are negative.
There are 11 persons in institutional isolation of which one person remains in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) while 119 persons are in-home quarantine.
Guyana had confirmed its first imported case of COVID-19 in Georgetown on Wednesday, March 11, 2020.
That patient, a 52-year-old Guyanese woman who had travelled from the United States of America to Guyana on March 5, 2020, was presented to the public health system on March 10. She died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation the following day.
On Monday, Jermain Ifill, a 38-year-old former Emergency Medical Technician, at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive care Unit (ICU).
He was one of the two Coronavirus patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
The World Health Organisation (WHO) believes that the best way to prevent and slow down transmission is to be well-informed about the COVID-19 virus, the disease it causes and how it spreads.
“Protect yourself and others from infection by washing your hands or using an alcohol-based rub frequently and not touching your face. The COVID-19 virus spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes, so it’s important that you also practise respiratory etiquette (for example, by coughing into a flexed elbow),” WHO advised.
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