Quarantined traveller tests positive for COVID-19
(CNS): Cayman now has three active cases of the coronavirus after another traveller in quarantine tested positive as they came to the end of the 14-day mandatory isolation period. The person is asymptomatic and Dr John Lee, the chief medical officer, said they would remain in isolation with their travelling party until receiving a negative test. The positive sample was one of 136 tests; the rest were all negative.
The local tally of positive cases is now 208 and officials have carried out 36,483 tests. It has been almost nine weeks since the last community transmission was recorded but there have been five positive samples from people in isolation after returning to Cayman from overseas.
Although testing numbers have decline in recent weeks, speaking at the COVID-19 briefing on Wednesday, Dr Lee said it was now more difficult to get people to take a test.
However, he said he was not too concerned because healthcare, emergency service and other essential and front-line workers were being regularly tested. In addition to seeing no positive cases among these groups, which serve as a barometer for the rest of the community, there have been very few calls to the flu clinic and no one is presenting with symptoms at the hospital.
Dr Lee said that once Cayman begins opening the borders, public health will want to increase testing to see the impact of more people in home isolation. “As we begin to see more travel across the borders, we may well increase the numbers of testing that we do, but at the moment we are relatively lockdowned and the number of travellers is not great,” he said.
But as people see that we are in a good position in the community, they are not seeing any need to test. The CMO warned that there is still a risk and people should be taking precautions because there is still a potential for spread from those working with people in quarantine, as he encouraged people not to abandon their masks and “continue to exercise caution”.
Category: Health, Medical Health
how many scamming the system by saying they must quarantine at home for ‘medical’ reasons????
CNS Did you read the Compass today?. You missed the farce whereby a returning passenger was released from quarantine before they got her Covid result, which was positive.Someone connected to the passenger let the cat out of the bag otherwise it would have been hushed up.
you have to jump through the loops in order to read Compass. They need money, but continue treating readers like trash. But there is no newspaper without readers. I believe Compass is on a very short leash. DoT I assume.
well, Compass should at least respond to readers who took time to write to The Editor since it appears they block 99% of comments. They should at least correct their own omissions that readers point to, instead of denying it then saying…ops, it wasn’t (was) included in pre-final version and again doing nothing. It doesn’t take long to add an amendment or update to the online article. They could do more research, at least that is what journalists used to do, before publishing an article about something they only know about from what they have been told by DoT or the “pusher” of the product.
How many morons out there freely allowed to post alarmist comments and conspiracy theory questions… look up… 👀
What’s wrong with questions? Stop trying to shame people and instead provide logical responses.
What about the person that was brought in on contract and is being allowed to go to and from work every day?
This is a serious breach. The entire system is set up so that this situation, as well as deliberate ones do not happen. The paranoids should be all over and yet it has attracted the fewest comments on CNS.
How many dead?
How many positives did they let walk free today?
The numbers of people being allowed into the island is way beyond the capability of the persons running this farce of a scheme. The fact that we are hardly allowing anyone in, tells you why opening up simply isn’t in the cards – for this government.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MvsU04Oj188
LOL. That sums it up perfectly.
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How about a complete picture? How many tested negative?
How about reading the article? The answer is in the 3rd and 4th sentences. Did you not make it past the headline? SMH.
Test them again!
Clean the sensors!
How many persons in hospital?