The Ministry of Health says it is coordinating efforts at mitigating any impact from the mosquito-borne virus chikungunya.
In a statement dated February 18, 2014 but only released yesterday by the Government Information Agency, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr Shamdeo Persaud said that heightened efforts will be concentrated in Vector Control, Epidemiology and Surveillance, laboratory detection of cases as well as the clinical management of cases.
Fourteen hundred cases of the viral disease have been detected in
