Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on Households in Guyana

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020, has created humanitarian and economic crises across the world.

Because of its highly contagious nature, countries were forced to implement partial or total lockdowns of their economies and borders to reduce the rate of infection. More specifically, containment policies, such as lockdowns to flatten the medical curve steepen the recession curve.