Dr Anthony wants businesses enforce COVID-19 measures

HEALTH MINISTER, DR. FRANK ANTHONY HAS WARNED LOCAL BUSINESSES
Thursday during his daily COVID -19 ‘UPDATE’ television programme to enforce the gazetted
COVID-19 guidelines.
“This thing is not about government alone; this is about everybody working together to make
sure all of us are safe. If we don’t do that, what we will end up with is that numbers will continue
to increase, and we will see more cases of hospitalisation and more cases of death,” Minister
Anthony said.
Ignoring the Gazetted Order can have dire national consequences, the minister reminded.
“This is in our hands to control, but that control has to do with our behaviour and adherence to
these measures. If we fail to do that, then the consequences are going to be the increase in cases,
hospitalisation and deaths,” he reiterated.
“It’s self-evident. We have to really start waking up,” Anthony cautioned.
Local business owners have a critical role in the quest, Anthony said.
“These various business entities whether they want to have any event with people, they should
work along with the Task Force so that those measures can be put in place,” he explained.
He continued: “Right now, we have put certain measures, for example if you are coming into a
business premises you have to show your vaccination card and really, we have to get the
business owners to enforce these things, if they don’t want to enforce it, then in the end all of us
would suffer.”
Every Guyanese must cooperate, Anthony reminded.
“The task force would work to enforce measures…including restrictions of number of people
gathering; talking to people about social distancing, getting people to comply with mask

wearing. But while the task force would try to do this, it’s really each one of us who would have
to change our behaviour to make sure that we would be in compliance with those measures,” the
government minister pleaded.
“The Task Force (cannot) run behind every single person to see whether they are wearing a mask
or not, that’s going to be quite a challenging endeavor,” Anthony said.
As of Wednesday, 341,600 or 66.6 per cent of the country’s adult population have taken their
first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 176,695 or 34.4 per cent of the adult population have
been fully vaccinated.
Among adolescents, 12 to 17 years old, some 19,680 or 27 per cent have been administered
the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, Minister Anthony disclosed.