TWO children who are preparing to write the National Grade Six Examination (NGSA) at the border town of Lethem in the Rupununi have tested positive for the Coronavirus.
This was confirmed by regional health officials, and takes the total number of cases recorded in Lethem to three.

Reports are that the two children reside at the town of Bon Fim, in neighbouring Brazil but attend primary school at Lethem. The children will now be placed in institutional quarantine at a facility within the Lethem Hospital compound, where staff will provide them with support.

Regional authorities at the town continue to urge residents to avoid crossing the border between both countries, and testing has been ramped up within the town recently.
The two cases add to one which was recorded at Lethem several weeks ago, where the patient had escaped from the Lethem Hospital after he was placed in quarantine there. He was subsequently nabbed in Brazil by the Brazilian authorities.

Brazil has recorded more than one million cases of the Coronavirus to date, and according to the Johns Hopkins University in the United States, the death of over 50, 000 Brazilians is attributed to the pandemic.

The NGSA examinations is set for July 1 and 2, 2020.