Border patrols have been stepped up in Region Nine to minimise persistent illegal cross-border travel between Guyana and Brazil, according to Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock, who says authorities there are worried about importing a deadlier variant of the virus from the neighbouring country.
Speaking with Sunday Stabroek on Saturday, Allicock disclosed that illegal travelling between the two countries is still a major issue in the region. He revealed that Guyanese and also Venezuelan migrants living in the Rupununi continue to travel back and forth between the two countries, despite being warned not to do so numerous times because of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic.
