November

FLOODING RETURNS TO GEORGETOWN

Guyana Post, Friday November 06, 2020 Man chopped after slapping woman in argument

State house being flooded by the torrental down pour of rain

Mayor of Georgetown, His Worship Pandit Ubraj Narine and his team are visiting various wards of Georgetown to assess damage done by flood waters.

The team is also meeting with affected residents.

Mayor Narine has reported that stores on Regent Street, Guyana’s premier

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention at Liliendaal, should be completed by the weekend.

Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, made this disclosure during Tuesday’s COVID-19 Update.

“This week we should be able to substantially complete Ocean View.

shopping district, have been completely flooded out and millions of dollars of losses have been Most of the things are in place and the staff at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and the contractors are trying to finish off the ICU, so by the end of the week we should have substantially completed the facilities there.”

The Minister said the next step would be to transport patients across reported to him.

The areas visited so far are Alberttown, Stabroek and Bourda. The mayor and his team will also visit Albouystown, Prashad Nagar and other affected areas within the city.

Deon Henry, a 24-year-old miner of Logg Hill Village, Baramita, North West District, was wounded by a woman with a cutlass after he slapped her.

Henry was consuming alcohol at Logg Hill Village with the woman when the two got into an argument. As the argument went on, Henry eventually slapped the woman’s

The Ministry recorded 79 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday November 4. 34 cases were recorded in Region One, five in Region Two, nine in Region Three, 25 in Region Four, one in Region Six, one in Region Eight and four in Region Ten.

The total number of recorded cases in Guyana is now 4,324.

The COVID-19 death toll has increased to 132 with the death of a 54-yearold man from Region Four today, November 5.

As of November 4 face several times. The woman responded by arming herself with a cutlass and chopping Henry multiple times about his body.

The man returned home after the incident and was taken to the Baramita Health Centre where he was treated and sent away.

Investigations into the incident are currently

COVID-19 Update November 5

OCEAN VIEW ICU NEARS COMPLETION

to the new facility, “We’ll have a which was built as the substantially bigger first specialised health ICU and all the facility in the Caribbean medical personnel to cater to patients of and everybody would epidemics. be available at the

“The ICU would be facility.” able to accommodate Overall, the facility between 25 and 29 can hold up to 102 beds, which is quite a beds. The decision to large amount because establish a COVID-19 our current capacity hospital stemmed from at Georgetown Public a recommendation Hospital is around 14. made by PAHO/WHO.

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Min. of Health Hon Dr. Frank Anthony & Managing Director, Troy Cadogan and other ANSA McAl delegates

ongoing. 20,739 persons have been tested for the virus. 3,394 persons have recovered leaving 799 active cases in the country.

ANSA McAl Trading Limited also donated 100 vials of the antiviral drug Remdesivir to the Ministry of Health. The Minister of Health reported that the drug has been effective in the treatment of COVID-19 patients in Guyana.

The handing over was done at the Ministry of Health’s offices on Brickdam by the company’s Managing Director, Troy Cadogan.