The health situation is improving in Guyana where the authorities announced on Saturday a drop in the number of new cases of coronavirus. " The drop in the number of new confirmed cases seems to have started across the country except at Saint-Laurent du Maroni where it seems to be happening and on the Maroni river where the situation is being followed closely ," said the prefecture and the Guyana Regional Health Agency in a press release.
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The positivity rate is also gradually decreasing, while nearly 5,000 tests were carried out last week in this French territory of South America. “ With a delay of a few days, the number of new hospital and intensive care admissions has also started to decrease, but more slowly. The pressure on the hospital system is slowly starting to ease, ”say the authorities.
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Since March, the beginning of the epidemic in France, the Guyana region has recorded 6,655 confirmed cases, 4,272 cured patients, 932 hospitalized patients including 86 in intensive care and 37 deaths. Prime Minister Jean Castex, who visited Guyana last Sunday, had stressed that the Republic had " spared no resources " for this territory of 300,000 inhabitants, large like Portugal.