Guyana could be reconfigured. While the epidemic ebb has been observed in mainland France for several days, the situation in this overseas territory is very different and worries the authorities. The postponement of the second round of the municipal elections is even envisaged. Guyana went from 144 cases to almost 1,000 cases of coronavirus in a month. If the epidemic trend continues, the virus could soon affect 10% of the population.
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Too early confinement and proximity to Brazil
The infectious foci are multiplying, and several hypotheses have been put forward to explain it. The first concerns the containment period. Modeled on the metropolis, it could have taken place too early in relation to the evolution of the disease in this territory, according to several doctors. Deconfinement would therefore have been activated while the coronavirus was circulating the most. The other route envisaged is the proximity of Guyana to Brazil. The country led by Jair Bolsonaro has no control over its epidemic, which is getting worse.
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Faced with this situation, the mayor of Kourou, François Ringuet, who is also president of the regional hospital federation of Guyana, even plans to go back in time on sanitary flexibility. "The reconfiguration by sector, or by zone, even perhaps by district, I am for." According to him, it is also necessary "to reinforce the curfew, why not Sunday from 2 pm. It is really necessary to reinforce because there, one goes straight to the catastrophe", he alarms. Guyana is now awaiting the arrival of laboratory technicians, nurses and additional nurses from the mainland to make up for the lack of hospital staff on the territory.