Alleged COVID-19 patient detained while shopping at New Amsterdam Market for ’bush medicine’

A woman, who is alleged to be infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID19) and who had earlier escaped from a Demerara quarantine centre, was...

COVID-19 claims another life; 11 now dead with two more confirmed cases

Guyana has recorded it's 11th COVID-19 death, a Health Ministry spokesperson has revealed. Also, it was reported that of the thirty-two (32) tests done today,...

Region One’s first COVID-19 recovery, shares her story

(DPI)- Fifty-two-year-old Lolita Wong is a businesswoman living and plying her trade in the Mabarumba sub-region of Barima-Waini, Region One. She is also the...

$959M hospital commissioned in Port Kaituma

HOSPITAL COMMISSIONED | The long-awaited Port Kaituma Regional Hospital was officially commissioned today by the Minister of Public Health, Hon. Volda Lawrence. A total of...

Guyanese scholars in Cuba thankful for govt.’s $4M in relief packages

Guyanese students on scholarship in Cuba earlier today expressed sincere thanks to the government and people of Guyana for their demonstration of care, through...

COVID-19 Update: No new cases; three patients in ICU

No new case of COVID-19 has been recorded out of the 37 tests conducted within the last 24 hours. The number of confirmed cases...

NCTF approves conditional re-entry of over 300 Guyanese stranded overseas

The National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) today held a special meeting to consider the applications of various groups of Guyanese stranded overseas as a...

Bartica confirms first case of COVID-19

Mayor of Bartica, Gifford Marshall moments ago confirmed the township's first case of the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), via an interview with the Department...

Overseas-based NGO distributes 1000 food hampers to the less fortunate 

With Guyana already having a total of 127 positive cases of the novel Corona (COVID-19), an overseas-based non-governmental organization (NGO), the Jay and Sylvia...

Faith-based leaders urged to spread COVID-19 awareness as more men continue to die from...

Of the 10 COVID-19 related deaths recorded in Guyana, eight of them are males. For Guyana’s relatively small population, Health Officials said that there...

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