Cayman remains free of COVID-19 cases
(CNS): After another 203 COVID-19 test samples were processed over the last 24 hours the Chief Medical Officer, Dr John Lee confirmed they were all negative, Thursday, leaving the Cayman Islands free of any cases of the coronavirus. It is now more than three weeks since any tests came up positive here despite several thousand COVID-19 samples being process in that time.
Public health officials have now processed 31,108 samples since testing began in March with just 203 positive cases being recorded.
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COVID-19 free?? Open up too soon and all that will change. Mark my word.
We’re in quite the bubble in Cayman right now as regards this pandemic. Driving around, apart from the occasional masks, you’d not really know anything was going on around the world.
From what little information the CIG are giving us these days, it seems they’re bent on opening in this phased way in September and then who knows what for October/November (if anything).
Many people here don’t seem to think the virus is much to worry about and CIG overreacted. Others think its the end of days. The facts are probably somewhere in the middle. The one sure thing is that its here to stay as part of our lives for many more months at the very least (as much as 12) and even possibly for ever, like Flu sticks around. We’re waiting on a vaccine.
It’s a strange one – each week it seems to shock scientists/medics with its latest quirk. It’s not taking lives of younger people without underlying conditions, that’s a very bad omen. BUT equally, we’re learning that some people with different blood makeups seem not to be affected at all. We’re learning fast, but too slow for the general public used to instant fixes.
In the meantime, we need to get ready to start enforcing hand washing, distancing, masks again once we start letting more people in, because this virus has one consistent trait that everyone agrees on – it’s remarkably contagious.
Stay bubbled Cayman for a while longer! And then get ready to stay smart. We can do it.
Open up with Pre Testing and test after 5 days isolation is the way forward otherwise we are looking at years of this.
A useful, available and protective vaccine is a long way off!
If there was any virus around, you people would definitely be spreading it. It is pretty obvious your isolation worked. Letting people in will probably bring it and that’s when the masks and distancing will be important. You are about as ready as you will ever be.
I have a strong feeling that we have dropped the ball. There is a belief that we are COVID FREE – when in fact, a huge portion of our population has not been tested! With no press releases for up to 3 weeks as of today, and often not a mention of the virus on Radio Cayman (where many people receive news), public behavior has declined into non-mask wearing in many indoor locations. This virus is looking for a way to get to this island and spread…September plans are not good enough to protect us!
The science behind the masks changes on a regular. First they said that the virus particles are so microscopic that they can pass through the masks. Then they said the only one that would work is the N95, but told people to stop buying them as the medical professionals needed them. Now you can wear anything from a folded up bandana to a cut up sock as a mask. First they said the virus could spread 6 feet, then they said 13 feet, then it was being spread through the air. In Cayman 3 major supermarkets had employees test positive, one would have thought that with something that could spread so easily, the whole island should have tested positive and according to the mainstream media, most of them should have/ would have died.
But the fact is, the virus has a 99% survivability rate, what exactly are we so afraid of?
Start thinking critically and asking questions of what is being presented to you instead of running with everything you are told. The sooner you realize we are just being programmed, the better off you will be.
A 1% death rate would be devastating!
Thankfully it is much lower but we don’t know what if any long term effects it will have as of yet.
Just what are you trying to say???????
I suggest you read it again. It is very clear.
We’re fine here. If Covid was here and spreading at a significant rate, people would be in hospitals. Keep the masks for now but at some point it would be nice to get back to normal again.
Ohh like how the mainstream media said it was overcrowding hospitals in the Us and they were at or beyond capacity, but now those same hospitals are laying off hundreds of staff and filing bankruptcy? You people are so easily lead astray, sheeple.
Piece of foolishness. Testing the same damn people 🙄
But if you were smart you’d understand that testing the same people or the Frontline workers is still an indication that there are no new cases. For example, no one‘s in the hospital has no one has showed up to the hospital with symptoms…. hence here we are today…. so stop banging on about testing the same people over and over, it’s nonsense.
If you were intelligent you would recognize that the majority of those who were considered frontline are not really on the frontline any longer. They should be testing the wider population by now. Furthermore, if you had two brain cells to run together. How many people were showing up with symptoms before but had the virus? Not many, yet they were asymptomatic carriers. So why don’t you shut your mouth, use your brain and recognize that them not testing more people is actually nonsense.
My darling you show how fragile you are quite quickly. I suggest you stay inside and lock the door because someone on YouTube told me the virus can open unlocked doors.
9.02am Nonsense to you, we need to test people who have never been tested, nobody goes to hospital if they are asymptomatic and don’t know they have it.
Although cases were limited, it seemed like cases disappeared as soon as they announced borders were going to open.
Yet here we are, living out The Truman Show, one big human experiment.
Please, let’s stay closed until we see if a vaccine pans out. Please, please!
Why? A vaccine isn’t 100% effective.
So you want to stay closed for the next 1 year at best or maybe forever?
That is not a plan!
Uncle Donald says there will be one before November 3rd so we good.
anyone who listens to the current US President is as dumb as he is…
You know nothing about him, nor the previous one, nor the one before that. You are just a person with an opinion like the rest of us.
Yes it is. And it is the one that makes most sense, including economically.
5 more days before the 116 in quarantine get tested positive.
Thats dumb!
As if all 116 will be. It will luck to be 1.
Anyhow if you wanted to know for sure if any have it they should have been tested on day 8 after arrival that or possible exposure, thats when yogurt the best results and the least false negatives.
Who cares! Even though I fully disagree. They are in quarantine. I suggest you ever leave your home if you’re that afraid.