Our story in this issue of the Stabroek Business arising out of some of what is currently being reported on the impact so far of the globally worrying Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the manner in which it has been impacting globally in the region and in neighbouring countries, is timed to raise awareness of the malady and to help alert the authorities as much as the general populace to the fact that we too are vulnerable.
Our motivations are twofold. The first is, what we believe to be the risk which by no means can be dismissed that the virus may find its way here. The second is that is that the extant preoccupation with our political circumstances may well push COVID-19 and its possible consequences to the back of our minds (Unfortunately however, before this article made it to the press, President Granger announced to the nation that there was one reported case of COVID-19, a Guyanese woman, who had recently travelled from the US and that she has succumbed to the infection).
