Guyana: Mask wearing encouraged as COVID cases rise
The current coronavirus rise (COVID-19), which Guyana is experiencing, is not something that health officials did not anticipate.
Within the last 24 hours, three new cases were detected to take active infections to 142.
“It is not unexpected because we have seen increases in cases in other countries. So while we would have had a good period where numbers were really low, we can expect with ridged testing that we will see cases,” the Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony, said during today’s COVID-19 Update.
Anthony called on Guyanese to take precautions, particularly the wearing of masks and other face coverings to prevent themselves from being infected.
“The variants circulating now, which is one of the sub-variants of the omicron; they are more transmissible so that you can get infected quite easily,” he remarked.
Symptoms of the omicron variant can be mild in people who are vaccinated or healthy, but Anthony urged Guyanese not to leave their potential encounter with COVID-19 up to chance.
He said vaccines are available for persons to receive their primary doses or booster shots.
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