The prefect of Guyana Thierry Queffelec announced Thursday, at the end of a ministerial crisis unit, the total lifting of the curfew in the department from November 29.
Five municipalities, including the Cayenne prefecture and the Kourou space city, were still subject to a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew.
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Restaurants, sports halls and places of culture benefited from exemptions until 11:30 p.m. All these provisions will disappear and the inhabitants will no longer be subject to time constraints. However, as in France, the sanitary pass must be applied. Since the first confinement, on March 17, 2020, the department had not experienced a period of free movement. Depending on the fluctuations of the epidemic, curfews had always been maintained, on all or certain parts of the territory.
Thursday, November 18, the prefect of Guyana had already lightened the measures by postponing the time of the curfew and removing the ban on Sunday travel. After having long been a poor student, the department has an incidence rate of 74 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The number of hospitalizations and the positivity rate are also falling.
“We are in inter-epidemic circulation
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explained Thierry Queffelec.
"We have a break but we know that there will be a fifth wave, we have too few vaccinated,"
he lamented.
Reluctant to vaccination, Guyana posted a rate of 34.8% on November 17, according to figures provided by the prefecture.
Almost half of the population over the age of 45 is vaccinated, but the Guyanese population is very young.
Regarding border countries, the border with Suriname can be crossed under certain conditions and that with Brazil remains closed.
