COVID-19 positive traveller brings total to 211
(CNS): One traveller staying in government quarantine has tested positive for COVID-19, Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee confirmed Monday, as he reported on test results carried out since Friday, which included another 292 negative samples. The returning traveller is asymptomatic and was tested as part of routine screening on completion of the mandatory isolation. The result brings the positive tally to 211.
There was no indication from officials where the person had travelled from or which flight they had arrived on. The individual will remain in isolation until they have completed the necessary additional period of isolation. Cayman now has two active cases of the virus and has carried out over 39,000 tests.
Over one million people have now died of the virus around the world and only nine countries have no active cases at present.
The UK, the US and Jamaica, where the majority of Cayman’s returning travellers are coming from, are all still battling surges of the virus. Jamaica currently has 6,170 cases but over 4,200 of them are active. Although the rate of infection in the US, which has the most cases in the world, is stabilizing, Florida remains the state with the highest number of active cases at 391,259.
Today the UK reported in excess of 4,000 cases. Just four days ago the country recorded 6,634 new cases, its highest number of infections in just one day, which resulted in a series of strict restrictions and new lockdown measures.
Category: Health, Medical Health
Yet another traveller from Mars tests positive. The public has the right to know which countries are providing the positives, why all the secrecy?
Cayman is not a bubble.
Plus, since “nobody” dies because of covid-19 in this island, why not to open ?
Masks, safe distance, social distancing, wash your hands, sanitizers etc.
Just open and ho back to normal life.
This place will be closed until when, 2022?
Surely you jest? Logic, reason, sanity – come on. There is no place for that here.
And with the confinement breach – $1000 and 6 months in jail (see the CC paper) – that is in place until April 2022. So, you are probably right.
I can not read the CC site, so please tell me…is Cayman planning on keeping quarantine measures until April 2022? And the bracelet?
From the CC (September 17, 2020): Titled: New regs make home-isolation breaches criminal offence.
Under the new Prevention, Control and Suppression of Covid-19 (Partial Lifting of Restrictions) (No. 4) (Amendment) Regulations, it is an offense for people quarantined at home to permit another person to visit them. Those found in breach will face a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment for 6 months.
There are special police powers as part of this as well – very long article. Along with the regulations for people to quarantine at home.
The last paragraph:
The regulations are in place for a period of 18 months, commencing from Thursday (Sept 17). They are subject to revision by Cabinet.
So, to answer your question: 18 months from September 17, 2020 would be March 17, 2022. Sorry, my math was wrong in the post above. Therefore, the news isn’t so bad – it is March and not April in the year 2022.
Thank you. Wow!
And yes, the bracelet is part of it. You must wear it if you quarantine at your private residence. If you don’t want the electronic monitoring then you have to be stuck in a govt facility.
According to Doctor Lee, there are levels of infection. The person who was released in error had a low level and was not deemed a danger to society. If this is TRUE, what are the levels of ALL who test positive and are held back? What a bunch of sheep this population is! Just accept everything government says. Oh and by the way, notice no news about the airport. April 2021.
Seems like this is the second positive case detected in screening on completion of the quarantine period. Seems like that period should be extended, to 21 days, before some positive, asymptomatic case is inadvertently released into the public.
Act now CIG, otherwise it WILL happen!!
Calm yourself
I think they are trying to be sarcastic – at least I hope.
Hold on, 1 Million people have not died OF the virus, they’ve died WITH the virus. Massive difference.
And as for asymptomatic positive person being held longer? They should sue the government and demand to know on what basis, because its factually proven that asymptomatic positive people are not contagious and do not spread the virus. It’s easily checked, get them to wash their teeth and then run a test on the tooth brush.
As to 4,000 cases in the UK yesterday? that’s simply not true either. They have 4,000 OPCR positive tests. that is NOT 4,000 cases. That is most likely 3,900 people completely asymptomatic. or hey, i’ll be kind and say it’s only 3,500 asymptomatic. The other 500? 490 have the sniffles.
Come on. The world has gone mad and is being run by scaremongers or worse, imbeciles.
This is the very definition of fake news. It’s like saying the car accident didn’t kill you, the blood loss from the car accident didn’t kill you, the brain injury from the car accident didn’t kill you, it was the diabetes you had at the same time of the car accident that killed you. People dying with covid wouldn’t have died yet – unless they had covid.
Of course, you seem to be okay with people dying early. Then again, you seem to be an infectious disease specialist. What are your credentials? Where did you study? What makes you an expert at this?
Don’t misinterpret what 7:24am had said.
Thats why they test before they release. The person is no doubt at the end of the virus as they have been in isolation for 14 days.
I am almost 100% certain that many of the people that died with Covid that had underlying conditions would also have died if the caught a bad seasonal fly as well!
There is also guidelines that cayman does not follow that says asymptomatic people are free to be removed from isolation after 10 days of a positive test. They also say a person that tests positive with a confirmation test on PCR should NOT be retested for 90 days as they may still show low viral levels from shedding but are not infectous. As more people travel in some may have had previous infections, this will be a new problem for us and locking people away for no reason will become an issue.
I think you’ve 100% incorrectly interpreted the 7.24 post!
Infact, your note should help you see how you’ve got it wrong here –
for car accident, read covid.
Now imagine if a person dies in a car accident HAS diabetes, but the health authority mark them down as having died FROM diabetes, not WITH it.
that’s what is happening with Covid.
People are being marked as having died from it. Not with it.
Sue for damages also. Lost wages, emotional distress, mental and physical distress.
• detention that initially satisfied the
requirements of necessity and proportionality may no longer be justified insofar as the
circumstances may have changed significantly
• The right to challenge the lawfulness of detention before a court is a self-standing
human right, a peremptory norm of international law that cannot be derogated from
Deliberation No. 11 on prevention of arbitrary deprivation of liberty in the context of public health emergencies https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Detention/DeliberationNo11.pdf
“..still battling surges of the virus..”
with all due respect, there is no battle. More people are being tested, more positive cases, but 99% are asymptotic or have mild symptoms or have dead remnants of the virus.
Florida.
Monday’s Coronavirus Updates: 738 new cases, 5 new deaths reported in state.
Sunday’s Coronavirus Updates: 1,882 new cases, 10 new deaths reported in Florida
Saturday’s Coronavirus Updates: 2,795 new cases, 107 new deaths reported in Florida.
I don’t disregard deaths caused by COVID19 or its complications. Every death is a tragedy for the loved ones. But we can’t stop natural cause of events on this planet – birth is always followed by death in the cycle of creation.
In 21st century deaths are more tragic for technological advances made us believe every single person could be and must be saved.
For comparison pulmonary tuberculosis or consumption was so widespread in 18th century that one in every four deaths in England was attributable to the disease.
Pulmonary tuberculosis is a contagious, infectious disease, yet, as far as I know, there were no lockdowns or mass hysteria or deprivation of liberty.
Stop people from coming here from those 3 countries
Maybe the contracted it in quarantine…..?
Quarantine works!
Not that!?!
Is stabilizing?
Why open up the Cayman islands to tourism and have to lock down again. Construction and just about everything is booming except tourism, if the islands are open. For sure they will have to lock us down again and then everything will come to a stop like before
Oh no, we’re all going to die!
no just you
What about the other 799?