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COVID-19: PPP-led mask initiative in full swing

 
WI_cricfan 2020-04-09 18:34:59 

Meanwhile PNC tekking 156 days to count less than 500k ballots.

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The People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) Masking Guyana initiative that has seen persons from Regions 3, 4, 5, and 6 getting onboard to create thousands of cloth masks to protect from the coronavirus that has claimed six lives here is well on its way to reaching it’s 10,000 goal this week.

So far 5,000 masks were said to have been completed since Monday. The programme was launched on Saturday at Leonora where 1,000 masks were distributed while an additional 1,500 were distributed at Parika, Canal Number One Polder and Tiger Bay. Representatives on Monday went around to the various car parks distributing these masks while yesterday the management of the Uitvlugt Sugar Estate was given given 450 masks that they have promised to distribute to their workers. Mask distributions reached as far as Rosignol and Canje, West Coast and East, Berbice. Meanwhile, executive member of the PPP, Gail Teixeira has sent bales of cloth to Regions 1, 9, 7, and 10.

 
WI_cricfan 2020-04-09 18:38:29 

BTW only 145 people were tested so far. And according the minister: we are fully prepared.

Ministry of Public Health update:

The situation in Guyana, as of today 8th April 2020, is as follows. The number of confirmed cases is now thirty-seven (37) with our deaths increasing to six (6).
The total number of persons tested thus far is 145; with 37 positives (inclusive of 6 deaths) and one hundred & eight (10cool negatives. Please note that the test results of the person who died last evening confirmed that he was positive.

 
Norm 2020-04-09 19:00:05 

Good gesture by the PPP.

 
Hellraiser 2020-04-09 19:20:49 

In reply to WI_cricfan

The Sword of Damocles got them APNU people too bazodiee to think about anything else but self preservation right now.