UNDP provides COVID-19 support to Persons Living with HIV, LGBT+ Community

UNDP has provided $5.6 million worth of food items to make available nutritional support to Persons Living with HIV (PLHIV) and members of the...

President, Health Minister meet small political parties on COVID-19 response

President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali and Minister of Public Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, yesterday, met with the leaders of the small political parties including...

Guyana to receive additional 65,000 COVID-19 test kits; Gov’t. to secure $4B to help...

Guyana is set to receive some 65,000 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests in the coming weeks. According to President Irfaan Ali, the Prime Minister of...

COVID-19: Guyana receives over 46,000 rapid testing kits, essential medical supplies

Director General of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Lieutenant Colonel Kester Craig, last evening, handed over a quantity of essential medical supplies to the...

COVID-19 cases surpass 500-mark; Region Seven has a fifth of all cases

As of yesterday, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Guyana has surpassed the 500-mark. The total now stands at 509, following reports from the...

34-year-old East Bank man is Guyana’s 21st COVID-19 fatality

The Ministry of Public Health confirmed that a 34-year-old East Bank Demerara male is Guyana’s 21 COVID-19 death. Doodkumar Sookraj passed on July 30. On...

COVID-19 shrinks Republic Bank’s profits by US$68M

Republic Financial Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries continue to feel the squeeze during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the company reported that for the nine...

Over 2,000 persons repatriated to Guyana since May

The Government of Guyana through the collaborative efforts of the National COVID-19 Task Force, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Health...

COVID-19: Phase Four of reopening begins August 1; weddings, funerals public worship will be...

Phase Four of the re-opening process will commence on August 1 and continue until August 15. For this phase, places of worship will be permitted...

Family of latest COVID-19 fatality claims MOH allowed regular funeral, “did not test us”

Family members of 56-year-old Roger Martindale - who has been recorded as Guyana's latest COVID-19 death - are vehemently refuting the Public Health Ministry's...

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