Hospitalisation from COVID infection increasing nationally

HOSPITALISATION FROM COVID INFECTION HAS INCREASED NATIONALLY
Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony confirmed.
Dr Anthony made the revelation in a Department of Public Information (DPI), a state-run
communications agency, statement revealing, “for the entire month of January, an average of 18
persons were hospitalised; in February, 23 persons; March, 38 persons; April, 66; May, 87, and
June 87.”
These figures are monthly statistics and represent the number of in-patients at hospitals
countrywide, DPI said.
The spike in hospitalisations nationwide is cause for alarm some sources told this media house,
emphasising that a reversal depends on more persons willing to be inoculated.
The Minister had stated that since August 2, 2020, when the Irfaan Ally Government was sworn
into office following the victory at the polls held earlier last year, the new administration has
taken every step to ensure the population is protected against the deadly disease.
Since then, the local medical sector’s capacity to treat COVID-19 has been boosted with the
procurement of vital equipment and protective inoculant.
Since his appointment to the health portfolio, minister Anthony has been advocating vigorously
for Guyanese to conform to the COVID-19 gazetted guidelines to prevent contracting the highly
contagious and deadly virus.
The minister has also been counselling adults to protect themselves and their loved ones by
taking the two doses of the COVID vaccine.
Due to spikes in COVID-19 in Russia, there has been a delay in procuring the second dose of the
jab for Guyanese, making many on the waiting list understandably nervous.

So far, government statistics show 231,766 persons have gotten their first dose of a COVID-19
vaccine, while 106,344 have been fully inoculated.
These figures, the minister said, represent 47.6 per cent of the country’s adult population has
gotten their first dose of the vaccine while 21.8 per cent of the population is fully immunised.
Guyanese 18 years and older must visit any COVID-19 vaccination site at various locations
around the country to receive their life-saving jab, minister Anthony said.