Following the World Health Organization (WHO) publication of research from a clinical trial showing that remdesivir barely reduces the mortality rate of COVID-19 patients, member of the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Task Force for COVID-19 Dr Mahendra Carpen has said that there are no immediately plans to discontinue using it to treat patients here as it seems to be reducing the amount of time those with symptoms remain hospitalised.
Harold Smith, a 57-year-old Region Seven resident who is among the latest group of persons confirmed to have died due to COVID-19, was sick for two weeks with a mild fever before he suddenly began experiencing severe symptoms of the disease, according to his family, who were surprised at his sudden passing.
With the number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths rapidly increasing in Guyana, Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony yesterday asserted that education is the key to curbing the spread of the disease and preventing deaths and should the mass screening of elderly patients and public awareness campaigns in Region One prove successful, this will be implemented in other regions.
Virgil Ferreira, a former administrator of the Amerindian Hostel, has been identified as one of the persons who recently died after contracting the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Region One.
Region Nine Chairman Bryan Allicock is attributing the control of the spread of COVID-19 in the region to strict enforcement of the COVID-19 emergency measures.
Scores of Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) workers yesterday joined their counterparts from the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WRDH) and the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) by staging a protest to demand salary increases and better working conditions for all frontline workers.
Staff of the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) yesterday staged an early-morning protest over late salaries and the conditions they claim they are forced to work under at the hospital.
Two days after a doctor attached to the Bartica Regional Hospital told relatives of 78-year-old Samuel Wilson, a former Toshao of the Indigenous community of Batavia in Region Seven that the elderly man was suffering from a “minor problem,” the former Toshao died from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Due to the local delays in processing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) samples, the Ministry of Health will be approaching the Brazilian government to discuss whether laboratories in the neighbouring country can undertake testing, Region Nine Chair-man Bryan Allicock has revealed.
After being told that they had tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a family in Wowetta, North Rupununi, was left to fend for themselves even though two members of the family who tested positive were elders who would be more susceptible to the disease.
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread in the Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo region, village leaders of Karasabai in the South Pakaraimas say that the community is being neglected by the authorities and this has resulted in the death of two elderly persons who were suffering from severe symptoms but were not being monitored because they were still awaiting their test results.
One of the persons who died during the month of August from COVID-19 has been identified as 66-year-old Bernard Fernandes, a resident of Mabaruma, Region One.
In an effort to ensure that their two-year-old child didn’t contract the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from them, a couple in Batavia revealed that they had to sleep with masks on because they had no one to take care of their child after they were informed that they were infected with the disease which claimed six lives in the Cuyuni/Mazaruni region.
“It started off with mild flu-like symptoms. A little itchy throat, sore throat, and then I had headache, all which started off as mild but as the days went by, the symptoms became more severe and the fever got hotter and then I started suffering from shortness of breath,” were the words of 29-year-old Luwana Allicock, who spent two weeks in a special care unit at the Lethem Regional Hospital due to the severity of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) symptoms that she experienced.
In addition to indicating their interest for Guyana to participate in the COVAX initiative, which currently has the world’s largest and most diverse COVID-19 vaccine portfolio, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has also held talks with India and Russia regarding the vaccines that they are developing.
With COVID-19 cases in Region Seven now recorded at over 200, Bartica Mayor Gifford Marshall says that mining should be halted in the hotspots within the region in order to curb transmission, especially since many of the cases in the town originated from gold mining areas.
As a result of the continued rise in COVID-19 infections in the hinterland areas, the government has restricted travel into and out of regions Seven, Eight and Nine under the updated COVID-19 emergency measures, which will also see the national curfew hours reduced.
After recording 24 cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the village council of Batavia, in Region Seven, has decided to lock down the community in order to stop the spread of the virus within the area.
Two suspects were arrested yesterday over the armed robbery that occurred early Friday morning at Apaikwa Landing, in Upper Mazaruni, which left a miner hospitalised with multiple chop wounds about his body.
