After battling a COVID-19 outbreak in October and November of last year, Toshao of Kwebanna, Paul Pierre, on Tuesday said that the community is basically “back to normal” as residents are operating as though the virus has been completely eradicated.
Speaking with Stabroek News, Pierre disclosed that the village council is concerned about the behaviour of residents especially during the holiday season. He noted that although the entire community had suffered from a COVID-19 outbreak just weeks prior to the start of the holiday season and were in a lockdown for three weeks, they have not learned their lesson and have abandoned all preventative measures in order to party and drink alcohol during the past few weeks.
He noted that residents seem not to understand that there can be a second outbreak as they are saying that their reason for celebration is because “COVID is gone.”