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The Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) is asking that persons avoid kite flying in neighbourhoods and follow COVID-19 safety protocols during their Easter celebrations.

Former presidential adviser on petroleum,  Dr Jan Mangal says that in the current electoral crisis, President David Granger is part of the problem.

With visits to nursing homes now restricted as part of the measures to protect residents from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection, caregivers have turned to technology to ensure their elderly residents are not completely isolated.

Following the restart of its operations here in January this year, Australian miner Troy Resources Limited has produced 4,528 ounces of gold in the first quarter.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) yesterday warned that countries in the Americas face potential shortages of blood for transfusions due to a significant decline in voluntary blood donations during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Residents in Little India and Little Africa, Corriverton in Region Six were among those who received COVID-19 relief hampers from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Regional Commander of Region 6, East Berbice-Corentyne, Calvin Brutus is warning against the hosting of any event at the Number 63 Beach over the Easter weekend.

Washington Post reporter Darran Simon, who is of Guyanese parentage and lived here as a child, was found dead in his Washington DC apartment yesterday, according to a memo sent by one the newspaper’s top editors.

The number of persons here with the COVID-19 virus rose to 40 today.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force acting on information received yesterday went to a farm located  at Katuru Village, South Central Rupununi where they conducted a search of a camp owned by a foreign national and found three unlicensed shotguns.

Yesterday, between 03:30h and 15:45h ranks of the Guyana Police Force under the command of a Gazetted Officer  conducted a drug eradication operation in the Berbice River during which four fields of cannabis cultivation were found.

Weeks after criticisms that it was not doing enough testing for the COVID-19 virus, the government is preparing to expand the number of tests done following expert advice.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Yanomami youth has died after testing positive for coronavirus, health officials said today, raising fears that the epidemic will spread among the largest indigenous tribe in northern Brazil.

MANAUS,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Amazonas state warned today that its health system has been overwhelmed by the coronavirus epidemic, with all intensive care beds and ventilators already taken as a result of the outbreak.

The Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has issued an immediate recall of the Purcill brand of hand sanitizer from local shops and stores.

 (Reuters) – For young doctors like 26-year-old Christian Vigil, battling on the frontline against the new coronavirus is a journey back in time to an era they can scarcely imagine.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia today reported a record one-day rise in cases of novel coronavirus, pushing the official tally to more than 10,000, a day after President Vladimir Putin said the coming weeks would prove decisive in the fight against the virus.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – China has drawn up new guidelines to reclassify dogs as pets rather than livestock, the agriculture ministry said, part of a response to the coronavirus outbreak that the Humane Society called a potential “game changer” in animal welfare.

(Barbados Nation) Trinidad and Tobago has again refused to take its 33 nationals who are stranded here.

Ministry of Public Health update:The situation in Guyana, as of today 8th April 2020, is as follows.