Chief Minister Gavin St Pier , in Guernsey compared the health risk due to the 2020 coronavirus plus the lock-down declared by the authorities to those put in place at the time of World War II .
Initially , samples were sent to be tested at specialist laboratories in the UK in the absence of similar facilities in the Bailiwick , resulting in delays of over 48 hours for results in some cases .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Guernsey