CBC on alert for coronavirus
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control Service (CBC) has said it is vigilantly screening people entering the country who may have the novel coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV. WHO now states the global figure of those infected is approaching 30,000, with over 560 deaths. The vast majority of cases remain in China but people from 24 other countries have been infected. The disease can be deadly, though its fatality rate is low, with most cases seeming relatively mild leading to under reporting.
There have been no reported cases in Cayman of this new coronavirus and the government said it is doing what it can to prevent its arrival. Front line CBC staff from the airport and sea port have received medical briefings from the Public Health Department on the measures to take to reduce their risk, how to assess travellers’ risk and the procedure to follow when people should be referred for medical assessment.
CBC is working with other relevant government agencies to stay on top of the latest information, and Acting CBC Director Bruce Smith said the agency would continue the collaboration.
“With this, CBC senior and supervisory managers at the ports will adhere to all Public Health Department health and safety protocols,” he said in an official press release. “I strongly advise that the travelling public fully cooperate with landing officers and as well, heed all official advisories and recommended health and hygiene best practices for the greater good.”
Officers have been tasked to review passengers’ travel histories and check for visible symptoms. If those assessed warrant attention, CBC officers will request that the passenger use a surgical mask and wait in an isolated area until they can be examined by medical personnel.
The Public Health Department is providing a member of staff during busy periods to assist in providing information to arriving air passengers. They will also be able to respond to airport staff queries, and take any health matter forward.
Following the advice of medical experts, CBC officers are not required to wear surgical masks as a standard part of the front line uniform. However, masks are placed at the booths for immediate use in special circumstances or when officers feel more comfortable wearing a mask.
CBC Deputy Director Gary Wong said the agency was committed to ensuring that officers receive the resources needed for them to perform their duties.
“We will continue to take proactive measures to ensure that officers throughout the department are trained and kept aware of any information received from Public Health in order for them to protect themselves and the people of the Cayman Islands,” he added.
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Latest count is over 700 dead but consider the scenario – the Chinese are rounding up and detaining suspected coronavirus victims in temporary detention centres with no proper medical facilities in weather conditions that are shifting between 20C and -1C (68F-30F). Even the ‘hospitals’ they’re building aren’t much more than isolation facilities. Of course they’re dying – if you did that in any major UK or US city they’d die. In contrast all but one of the cases identified so far outside China have, or are, making a full recovery. It isn’t the virus that’s killing them, it’s the Chinese government’s response to the outbreak. We’re simply not getting the full story.
Think there hospitals are filled. Brah… Would look pretty bad if they came out and said he look our hospitals cant accommodate the sick and the sick are infecting the other sick.. That’s likely the full story… What’s not and should be our story is the full ban on business and non essential travel to HK, Singapore and China under threat of mandatory quarantine on return.. Every major economy recognises economy cannot come before health of citizens
Please don’t believe everything you read. Chinese government doing what they can. They are not monsters. It is not easy to manage outbreak in a country of 2 bil. people. Under the circumstances isolation facilities are a necessity. Not everyone likes it.
P.S. why do you need the whole picture of what is happening in China? Who knows what kind of viruses are brewing inside your Dump. Dead iguanas and other animals mixed with medical waste could be a perfect material for that.
Why don’t we ban the cruise ships for a month? oh wait yeah u prefer cash right ?
Antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral effects of three essential oil blends
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552930/
There are more potent oils exist than those used in the study.
Just keep one thing in mind: you will not find real, authentic, undiluted, unadulterated essential oils on Amazon, grocery stores shelves or even Bodyworks. To be affordable to consumers nearly all oils are at least diluted. Approximately three pounds of lavender flowers are required to produce just 15mL of lavender essential oil. It requires about 242,000 rose petals to distill approximately 5 mL of rose oil. Peppermint oil is almost always synthetic. There are no authentic Sandal and Frankincense oils sold anywhere.
As you can see authentic oils could be nearly impossible to find. That is why what you buy at a store “doesn’t work “.
As of today, I trust only 2 companies (you don’t have to): Floracopeia and Young living oils. But don’t buy on Amazon, it would be most certainly fake. You can contact these companies directly and ask if they sell on Amazon directly.
Undiluted oils can be found at every supermarket on island. High quality oils that are just as good as the companies you listed.
You obviously don’t know the differences how the oil is made that differs the quality.
5,000 people infected every day, two week incubation period. We haven’t seen anything yet when it comes to a massive global infection.
I am an expert on essential oils and hold degree in biochemistry.
I recommend you start with “The Chemistry of Essential Oils Made Simple: God’s Love Manifest in Molecules” Book by David Stewart, 904 pages of pure chemistry. If you wish, we can debate after you finish it.
BBC(2/8)
** Many of those who contract coronavirus will experience only mild symptoms. These include fever, coughing and respiratory problems. Most people are expected to make a full recovery.
But it can pose a particular risk for elderly people and those with pre-existing problems like diabetes or cancer, or weak immune systems.”
** Purell dispensers, preferably touch-free, should already be installed in ALL public places. THIS should have been the first thing mandated by the CIG and already implemented.
** Those who rely only on scientifically proved remedies, should follow doctor’s advices. Home/old-folks/traditional/based on anecdotal evidence remedies are plentiful and harmless. They work! Ask your grandma or do your own research. Earthclinic site provides such information.
** Residents of the Cayman Islands have advantages Chinese people don’t: comparatively low population density plus the greatest healer on Earth- SUN is always available. You get vitamin D production in your skin once sun reaches 35 degrees over horizon (get Dminder app to guide you when should you expose yourself to sunrays)
** Lysol kills most viruses and bacteria including Coronavirus. Don’t go overboard, but if you are worried clean your doorknobs, light switches, mobile phone, etc. regularly only during epidemics ( which you don’t have)
The part that all of these so-called advisories forget to mention is “taking care of yourself”. Get enough rest, stay hydrated, eat vegetables, supplement B12 and D, take a multi every now and then, avoid sick people, get your flu shot, and keep your immune system functioning as well as it can.
Agree on sun, rest, staying hydrated, avoiding sick people. Eat meat=B12, suntan =Vit.D
But most of all,don’t WORRY! Your body is very resilient if you allow it to heal itself.
Read advice on old fashioned baking soda box what to once get first symptoms of flu and cold:
Day 1 — Take six doses of ½ teaspoon of baking soda in glass of cool water, at about two-hour intervals
Day 2 — Take four doses of ½ teaspoon of baking soda in glass of cool water, at the same intervals
Day 3 — Take two doses of ½ teaspoon of baking soda in glass of cool water morning and evening, and thereafter ½ teaspoon in glass of cool water each morning until cold symptoms are gone.
Apply Oscillococcinum ointment inside your nose and wear mask.
Thyme essential oil, the real one, not sold in stores or Amazon, is the most potent anti virus/bacterial remedy that kills even antibiotics resistant infections. Don’t take internally.
Be well.
4 passengers quarantined off Royal Caribbean cruise fm Eastern Caribbean today. About time to think about our thousands of passengers arriving to our port!
Cancel all cruises.
Where is the Ebola tent?
A mystery.
What Auditor General would say? 3 mil. expenditure is material (is it?) enough to know what was purchased and where it is.
But since 3 years have already passed with no one questioning, it would remain a mystery. Just like a billion lost and never found.
This is the one. We are all going to be affected by this pandemic. When it’s all said and done, we will all have lost a loved one or two to this disease.
Calm down captain sensationalism.
Duhwayne took his sweet time making a statement about the virus as if he did not even know it existed. There is no secure measure being taken as in other countries to check for the virus. Only a matter of time before it is here since there is no proper screening being done. Cruise and plane passengers flood in here daily how do we know they are all virus free?
Ok CDC. I turn up from London and have cold symptoms and a mild fever. What happens?
Is that different from what happens if I come from Singapore?
What if I come from Beijing and have no symptoms?
What is the plan? Is there a plan?
Got any Purcell stations anywhere?
OMG – we are so screwed!
What about Cruise Ship passengers?
Oh, don’t even ask them any questions at all, because we assume they have been screened by the cruise ship. Just like all those infected people on the other cruise ships. Let’s ask a couple thousand air passengers a day if they have been to China, but let 10000 cruisers a day through because god forbid we should interfere with day trip revenue for Stingray City business, Calicos, Royal Palms, an MLA s pop up bar or taxi drivers. Not that any of that will survive an outbreak here.
And when we screen the passengers, and ask them if they have been to China, and they say yes, and exhibit cold symptoms, what then? Send them to the emergency room at the hospital so they can potentially infect the rest of us?
What is the plan y’all?
Send them back to the shop perhaps. Just as Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong have done.
What did the shop ever do to you? And if you meant ship, that is the wrong answer, not least given the clear reference was to air travelers.
They would have to be immediately quarantined in an appropriate facility.
Everyone that came in on a plane with them would probably, at the very least, have to be self quarantined.
The arrivals hall at the airport would have to be disinfected.
So what the the plans to accomplish this, and to even prevent sick passengers from getting that far?
How was the clear reference in relation to air passengers? Original post specified cruises ships as did at least one of the follow ups. None mentioned air travel. You want to post about air travel fine. Start your own thread instead of claiming this one has gone off message.
They are telling the public a good story, officers is just letting all the passengers through, they are telling the officers, don’t use too much gloves, no proper checks is being done, wake up CBC management ,wake up.