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The Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle during the live update yesterday, stated that they have warned a number residents of Regions One, Eight and Nine against crossing the border and are now urging residents of Region Six to refrain from doing the same as neighbouring Suriname has recorded new cases after managing to contain the disease. Dr Gordon-Boyle stated that Guyana is in a vulnerable position for receiving imported cases.
Gordon-Boyle reiterated that isolation and quarantine facilities are not the same as only persons who have tested positive for COVID-19 are isolated. She pointed out that the duration of time that persons spend in isolation is not fixed as that depends on how fast the body fights off the virus.
Over the past few weeks, persons have raised concerns about the condition and standards of the quarantine and isolation facilities within the regions. In a separate interview with Stabroek News, Deputy Director of the Health Emergency Operation Center, Dr Leston Payne stated that all regions have both isolation and quarantine facilities which are all in keeping with PAHO/WHO and International Health Regulation standards. “If an area has been identified as an isolation or quarantine facility, that area is not given the green light until Standards and Technical comes and does their evaluation,” he said.
Dr Payne noted that when that evaluation is done and it is deemed in keeping with the guidelines then the “green light” is given for the facility to operate as that facility. “So far in every administrative region, we can boast that we have isolation and quarantine facilities. Yes they are up to standard,” Dr Payne asserted.