Fewer cases this week, and hospital pressure that is starting to improve slightly. Better, the forecasts for the next few weeks are optimistic for Guyana, according to the weekly bulletin of Public Health France
Two new deaths from the coronavirus to be deplored in Guyana yesterday Friday. Despite these 147 and 148th deaths at the start of the epidemic, it is currently continuing to decline.
A sharp slowdown that will continue
The decrease in the number of cases that began in June has accelerated since last week. 700 cases from June 21 to 27 against 900 the previous week. The incidence is still high but continues to decline. 204 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last seven days. Santé Publique France expects it to fall below the 200 mark in the coming hours. Another witness to the epidemiological slowdown is the virus reproduction rate, well below 1, at 0.84, and still declining. This means that the slowdown will continue.
But Guyana is subject to geographic disparities. An almost dormant epidemic in the East unlike the West where the virus is still circulating very actively, in the order of 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Hospital pressure is still important. Despite fewer intensive care admissions, hospitalizations are on the rise. Public Health France reminds that generally these indicators evolve in a staggered manner, of around ten days, compared to the gross number of cases of coronavirus.
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