Brian Jenkins, the executive director of a United States-based charity organization, Chosen 300 Ministry Inc. departed Guyana on Saturday night for the US after he was quarantined here as a result of testing positive for COVID.
Jenkins who arrived in Guyana on one of his charitable missions and to host an evangelical crusade had tested positive here which resulted in him being quarantined at the Diamond Hospital COVID-19 facility which he dubbed on his social media page as the “COVID prison”. He further stated that he slept in the worst possible conditions. According to the man, during the time at the quarantine facility he lived off mangoes, vitamins and water.
Jenkins related that he learnt from the Ministry of Health, through the US Embassy that if his follow-up test returned negative, he would be released from quarantine but if he tested positive providing that he was not exhibiting any symptoms, he would be released from quarantine in seven days. Jenkins’ test returned positive. He noted that owing to his complaint about conditions at the Diamond Hospital COVID facility, with the help of the US Embassy and via a letter from the office of U.S. Senator Bob Casey, provisions were made for him to spend the remaining three days of his quarantine at a private lodging.
Owing to him being asymptomatic, Jenkins, by the end of his seven days quarantine received a letter from the Ministry of Health permitting him to leave Guyana.
