Sustainable relief approach to COVID-19 being explored
DPI, Guyana, Sunday, August 9, 2020 The Social and Economic Committee commissioned by President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, His Excellency, Mohamed Irfaan Ali has been tasked with ensuring that COVID-19 relief and interventions [...]
Hinterland communities to benefit from COVID-19 relief supplies
— Regions 8 and 9 are the targetted areas DPI, Guyana, Sunday, August 9, 2020 Earlier today, the newly-appointed Ministers of Local Government, Hon. Nigel Dharamlall, and Amerindian Affairs, Hon. Pauline Campbell-Sukhai, received COVID-19 relief [...]
New Health Minister finds major drug shortages
− to address this immediately DPI, Guyana, Sunday, August 9, 2020 New Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Frank Anthony has been uncovering deficiencies and other issues currently existing within the sector. One of which is [...]
‘Politicised task force led to ineffective COVID-19 response’ – says Health Minister
− new committee established including international community, private sector DPI, Guyana, Saturday, August 8, 2020 After being sworn in on Wednesday, Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Frank Anthony has already met with several key personnel [...]
Technicians to be trained to test for COVID-19
− part of Health Ministry’s aim to build capacity for COVID-19 testing − more testing kits expected DPI, Guyana, Saturday, August 8, 2020 Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Frank Anthony has disclosed details of [...]
Confirmed COVID-19 cases now stand at 554
— New Min. of Health prepares to tackle pandemic head-on DPI, Guyana, Saturday, August 8, 2020 As the new Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Frank Anthony and team prepare to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the [...]
New COVID-19 response unit to be established – President Ali
DPI, Guyana, Saturday, August 08, 2020 His Excellency, Mohamed Irfaan Ali has announced that his PPP/C government will be dismantling the politically established National Covid-19 Task Force. The Head of State said the country’s response [...]
$4.5B being secured to help households
— will assist private sector and other groups DPI, Guyana, Saturday, August 8, 2020 The sum of $4.5Billion is being secured as an initial sum to assist households during the COVID 19 pandemic. This was [...]
29 new COVID-19 cases recorded
—Total now stands at 538 DPI, Guyana, Thursday, August 6, 2020 The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to climb with the total now standing at 530 persons testing positive for [...]
MoH seeking to build COVID-19 testing capacity
−Min. Anthony outlines immediate actions to be taken −Aims to get 500 COVID-19 tests done daily DPI, Guyana, Thursday, August 6, 2020 The Ministry of Health under the leadership of newly-appointed Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony [...]
PAHO echoes warning against chlorine products as COVID-19 cure
—chemicals can lead to adverse effects if ingested or inhaled —no evidence remedy has any healing benefits DPI, Guyana, Thursday, August 6, 2020 The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) is currently concerned over a recurrence [...]
‘New COVID-19 hospital cannot be used as is’ – Min. Anthony
DPI, Guyana, Thursday, August 6, 2020 The COVID-19 hospital which was commissioned a week ago under the previous administration has been determined to be unable to readily cater to complex COVID-19 cases. This is according [...]