Guyana Public Health Authority Wants Passengers On Caribbean Airlines Flight To Contact Them

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 16, 2020 (CMC) – Health authorities, here, today, are urging passengers, who travelled on a flight from New York to Georgetown, on March 12, to get in touch with them, after one of the passengers tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Ministry of Public Health, in an emergency notice, posted on its website, said that the passengers, who were on board Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight BW727, should contact the ministry “for urgent information”.

One of the passengers on the flight is the daughter of a 52-year-old woman, who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), on March 11, less than 24 hours after she was admitted to the facility, suffering from symptoms associated with the virus, for which there is no known vaccine.

News reports, here, said that when the daughter, who had stayed with her mother in New York, arrived in Guyana, she did not show any symptom and was ordered to self-quarantine.

But she, and two other members of the family, have since all tested positive for the virus.

CAL has since announced that the13-crew members, who worked the two flights, have been placed in quarantine in Trinidad and Tobago.