Georgetown: Guyana may be facing a suspected case of coronavirus in the capital city of Georgetown after a 52-year-old woman died at the Georgetown Public Hospital from “flu-like” symptoms after she visited the hospital on Tuesday.
The Ministry of Public Health is investigating the death.
Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud told a symposium Wednesday morning that as a result of new countries with confirmed cases, more stringent measures will be put in place for passengers entering Guyana.
According to Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence said there is no evidence to indicate that the woman died from the Coronavirus. However, samples from the woman’s body were sent to be tested.
Reports indicate that the female visited the hospital on Tuesday after returning from Queens, New York and she appeared to have “flu-like symptoms”. She was also diabetic and hypertensive.
Relatives of the woman could not confirm whether she had any contact with anyone who may have the COVID-19 virus.
Guyana currently has 26 persons under surveillance for the virus.
The spread of the coronavirus across more than 100 countries now qualifies as a global pandemic, World Health Organization officials said on Wednesday, confirming what many epidemiologists have been saying for weeks.
Until now, the W.H.O. had avoided using the term to describe the epidemic leapfrogging across the world, for fear of giving the impression that it was unstoppable and countries would give up on trying to contain it. The organization had said earlier in the outbreak that it no longer officially declared when an epidemic reaches pandemic proportions, preferring instead to declare global public health emergencies
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