It has been one year since Guyana recorded its first Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case and while the pain of the sudden death of the country’s ‘Patient Zero’ remains fresh, uncertainty also still looms as to where she might have contracted the virus.
On March 11th, 2020 Guyana confirmed its first case of COVID-19 and death.
The victim was 52-year-old Ratna Baboolall. She had travelled from the United States (US) and arrived in the country on March 5th, 2020. She was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on the afternoon of March 10th, 2020 at around 5pm. While she was there, she presented uncontrolled diabetic and hypertension conditions, which saw her having to be resuscitated. Around 8am, the following day she died.
