India, population 1.3 billion, orders ‘complete’ coronavirus lockdown
New Delhi (CNN) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered a "complete" lockdown for India's 1.3 billion people on Tuesday, warning that "many families will be destroyed...
COVID-19: 1759 households in 25 communities benefit from relief distribution
As the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) continues to work to bring relief to citizens and communities, which have been affected by the Ministry of...
Four more fatalities take COVID-19 death toll to 687
Four more persons, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died. This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to...
Matured vaccination programme bearing fruit
Guyana’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has matured from the initial tight focus on children when it began some 40 years ago to targeting...
Visitation ban to be lifted at Infectious Diseases Hospital
The Health Ministry will be lifting the visitation restrictions in place at the Infectious Diseases Hospital as early as next week.
Speaking during today’s COVID-19...
GPHC records significant increase in CT scans since cost has been removed from backs...
Advisor to the Health Sector Dr. Leslie Ramsammy said the Georgetown Public Hospital conducts just about 2000 CT scans per month. Ramsammy pointed out...
PANCAP youth meeting to draft tactical HIV response roadmap
Set for July 30–August 2, 2019, the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach...
Partnership initiative to help sustain HIV/AIDS gains
The Ministry of Public Health is currently piloting a tactical Public-Private Partnership (PPP) which will see it partnering with private physicians to join the...
U.S donates additional US$1.7M to COVID-19 fight
The United States Government today has committed an additional US$1.7 million to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in Guyana and the rest...
COVID-19: Guyana’s recovery rate now 52%
The Public Health Ministry is reporting a 52% COVID-19 recovery rate. This translates to 162 of the 314 infected persons recovering from the virus.
This...
