Europe 1 with AFP 07:37, September 25, 2021, modified at 07:40, September 25, 2021

"Guyana had never recorded so many deaths and admissions in intensive care" since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, "the epidemiological bulletin of Public Health France warned on Friday. In the last seven days," 21 Guyanese have succumbed to Covid-19, a figure never reached "underlined the ARS, this Friday, in its daily bulletin. An increase in Covid hospitalizations in pediatrics has been observed for 3 weeks, under 20 years old represent 9% of hospitalizations , double their rate in wave 3 according to SPF.On the other hand, if the number of hospitalizations reached the level of the peak of the 3rd wave last week like the previous one, it is still below the peak of the 1st 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".

Low vaccination coverage

At the Cayenne hospital center, according to its director Christophe Robert on Friday: "52.4% (of staff) are vaccinated at least with the 1st dose, which allows them to be kept in post, of which 96.1% for doctors and interns, 52% nurses, 40% nursing assistants, 23% for hospital service agents ".

"I am trying to understand why people do not want to be vaccinated while we are suffering from increasingly serious waves" expressed Wednesday on Guyana The 1st Didier Guidoni, director of the hospital of Saint-Laurent du Maroni at the border in Suriname, a sector where the incidence rate rose from 331 to 555 last week (+ 68%).

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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 in 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 certain not to be vaccinated" indicated the latest study from the Institut Pasteur in Guyana, explaining this situation by the "lack of confidence in local authorities" and in "the vaccine", and by a sense of "protection" acquired during previous waves of Covid-19.

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.