"Guyana had never recorded so many deaths and admissions in intensive care" since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, alerted the epidemiological bulletin of Public Health France (SPF) on Friday.
During the last seven days, "21 Guyanese have succumbed to Covid-19, a figure never reached", for its part, underlined the Regional Health Agency (ARS), Friday, in its daily bulletin.
An increase in hospitalizations linked to Covid-19 in pediatrics has been observed for three weeks, the under 20s represent 9% of hospitalizations, double their rate in the third wave according to SPF.
Delta variant suspected in 99% of positive tests
On the other hand, if the number of hospitalizations reached the level of the peak of the third wave last week as the previous one, it is still below the peak of the first wave.
The delta variant was suspected in 99% of positive tests screened last week.
Under strong tension from part of the population and healthcare staff opposed to compulsory vaccination, the management and department heads of the three hospitals in the region, where 130 patients are currently admitted for Covid-19, including 31 severe cases, on Wednesday before the press against the general risk of "sorting patients".
At the Cayenne hospital center, according to its director Christophe Robert: "52.4% (of staff) are vaccinated at least with the first dose, which allows them to be kept in post, including 96.1% for doctors and interns, 52% nurses, 40% nursing assistants, 23% for hospital service agents ”.
"I'm trying to understand why people do not want to be vaccinated while we are suffering from increasingly serious waves", the 1st Didier Guidoni, director of the hospital of Saint-Laurent du Maroni, told Guyana on Wednesday in the border of Suriname, an area where the incidence rate rose from 331 to 555 last week (+ 68%).
Vaccination still struggling
In this territory of 300,000 inhabitants, where one inhabitant in two is under 25 years of age, vaccination is still struggling with “30.5%” of people with a complete vaccination schedule among those over 12 years old according to official data.
It is the lowest vaccination coverage of the French regions, with Guadeloupe.
"30% of the adult population is sure not to be vaccinated" indicated the latest study by the Institut Pasteur in Guyana, explaining this situation by "lack of confidence in local authorities" and in "the vaccine", and by a sense of “protection” acquired during previous waves of Covid-19.
Overseas Minister Sébastien Lecornu arrived in Guyana on Friday afternoon.
He will travel to Cayenne hospital on Saturday to ascertain the situation and send a message to the attention of caregivers.
"We hope that it will be a moratorium for the establishment of compulsory vaccination because I do not see how we could compensate for a wave of suspension of unvaccinated caregivers, in any case the ARS does not answer this question" declared Friday Guy Frédéric, early activist of the local Walwari party co-founded by Christiane Taubira.
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President of an association advocating the right to health for all but opposed to the vaccination obligation of caregivers, the person concerned with demonstrators disrupted a vaccination point organized by the Red Cross, Monday near a squat area , on the outskirts of Cayenne.
The authorities have recorded more than 250 deaths linked to Covid-19 in Guyana since the start of the pandemic, a quarter of which in the past 45 days.
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