Guyana has so far recorded 176 COVID-19 recoveries as the number of cases continues to rise.
On Thursday during the Ministry of Public Health’s COVID-19 update, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle related that only one new case of the novel coronavirus was recorded yesterday bringing the total number of cases recorded in the country to 351.
Fifty-one more persons were tested in the country which increased the total number to 3,975. There are currently 156 active cases who are all in institutional isolation while 35 persons are in institutional quarantine with 2 persons remaining in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit. Eleven more persons have now recovered from COVID-19.
The Deputy Chief Medical Officer during the update provided employers with guidelines that are in keeping with Guyana’s Occupational Health and Safety Act. She informed that employers are expected to ensure that junior staff are enabled to follow the mandatory norms and standards adding that employees should use private transportation whenever possible. She suggested that should circumstances permit, employers should provide transportation for their staff to and from work to reduce their probability of exposure.
Further Dr Gordon-Boyle added that workplaces should all have screening and sanitising stations at their points of entry and persons who are not wearing masks should not be allowed to enter business places. On that note the Deputy Chief Medical Officer iterated that there should be clear demarcations to separate customers from employees and office spaces should be rearranged to facilitate physical distancing of at least six feet.
