The People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) Masking Guyana initiative that has seen persons from Regions 3, 4, 5, and 6 getting onboard to create thousands of cloth masks to protect from the coronavirus that has claimed six lives here is well on its way to reaching it’s 10,000 goal this week.
So far 5,000 masks were said to have been completed since Monday. The programme was launched on Saturday at Leonora where 1,000 masks were distributed while an additional 1,500 were distributed at Parika, Canal Number One Polder and Tiger Bay. Representatives on Monday went around to the various car parks distributing these masks while yesterday the management of the Uitvlugt Sugar Estate was given given 450 masks that they have promised to distribute to their workers. Mask distributions reached as far as Rosignol and Canje, West Coast and East, Berbice. Meanwhile, executive member of the PPP, Gail Teixeira has sent bales of cloth to Regions 1, 9, 7, and 10.