According to Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence, Guyana conducted its first test for COVID-19 on February 26 exactly two weeks before the first imported case of the virus was recorded.
Since that time nearly two months ago a total of 132 tests have been conducted on persons who fit a criteria that Lawrence says was developed by the Word Health Organisation/Pan American Health Organisation (WHO/PAHO).
Speaking during a lengthy interview on the National Communications Network (NCN), Lawrence maintained that there has never been a shortage of the test kits for COVID-19 in Guyana.