Two travellers positive for COVID-19
(CNS): One person with mild coronavirus symptoms and another with none, both of whom were both in government quarantine, have tested positive for COVID-19. The tests were among 337 results reported by Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee at the government coronavirus briefing Friday, which pushes the total cases of cases in the Cayman Islands to 213, with just three of them active. Around 190 people who arrived here via British Airways, Cayman Airways and three private flights yesterday were all negative when tested on arrival.
Premier Alden McLaughlin said the test run over the last two weeks had also gone very well. That group of 29 households was being tested Friday evening and all those who are negative will be released from home-isolation.
Meanwhile, both Dr Lee and Dr Tasha Ebanks-Garcia also confirmed there have been no breaches of the system, and over the last two weeks the team of monitors have conducted 95 random checks at the homes where people were self isolating. But with 79 new households now is isolation, the monitoring team has been increased to 22 people who are working twelve-hour shifts and will continue the random checks.
Dr Ebanks-Garcia said that as well as making random house calls, the team is speaking with the isolating households on the phone.
However, Dr Lee urged people to comply with the rules and for residents not to visit people in isolation until their quarantine is over. He said that anyone who wants work done at their properties must wait until after the isolation period is over because plumbers and air-condition engineers will not be allowed to go to their homes during the quarantine time.
Category: Health, Medical Health
Do any of you dimbulbs on flyspeck island realize this hasn’t been a pandemic since July? Keep eating what they’re feeding you. Fools!
Stfu Juniper and worry about where you are from.
CNS – are you able to ask what are the plans for December? There are no inbound flights for December on TravelTime.
When are we going to find out what happens next?
CNS – having watched the briefing on Friday, at which your reporter was present, I distinctly recall Dr. Lee saying that one of the two recent positives was a person who had gone to a hospital for unrelated medical treatment and that person was discovered to be positive (per standard pre-admission testing).
This suggests that person was already in our community, not a recent arrival.
1:02 am I thought I heard that too.
Still under control but traffic isn’t.
22 inspectors doing 12 hour days. That’s 240 manhours a day, enough for each inspector to do a house every 3 hours, or 4 per day. I want this job!
This is why it is good that we have continued with quarantine and testing. It has been so nice living mask free and enjoying life within our borders. I hope we can continue to be sensible so that people within our local community and those visiting can enjoy our shores without worry. Praying that the individual who is showing symptoms does not get worse and may both new positives recover quickly!
You are an elite who doesn’t care about the average working class person who is now unemployed thanks to Cayman governments border closures.
Paul Black, I don’t see how you can assume 8:49 is an elite. Is it because they write sensibly? Because their comment does not reflect hatefulness, negativity, or superiority unlike yours.
I am working class and I agree with 8:49’s post. We have a lot to be grateful for and even though things have not been the easiest they could be a hell of a lot worse. I used to work in tourism and became unemployed during this pandemic. I had to seek alternative employment and guess what…many others can do the same. We need to stop being so stagnant in our mentality.
I’m not in the tourism and am retired here and agree 100% the border should have been opened better by now for you….I truly feel for you!
I’m not anything close to an elite. I enjoy it being quieter.
My business is toast, at least for now. I feel blessed to be able to go through this world-changing thang here at home. We have our problems, but we’re in as good a position as could be hoped for.
You are delusional. Your business got destroyed because Cayman government destroyed it by locking down island for a virus that everyone will get anyways, that has a 0.02% death rate and average age of death is older than the average life expectancy.The rest of the world is open and living life as normal.
We are living life pretty normal too from the looks of things. Just less cheapskates walking about our islands. Ain’t too shabby
But its not sustainable!
Actually, it is, provided we let the wealthy come for extended stays, prevent persons who cannot sustain themselves from settling, and reduce civil service wastage.
Spoken like a truly selfish elite “just less cheapskates”. You only care about yourself and not the thousands who cant pay their bills now.
Precisely Elitist in a bubble.
Paul Black, cry me a river.
Stop pouting, go out, and get a job.
There is information in the public domain in regards to family of 8 or 9 persons who are potentially positive with covid19. Within this family there is a number of school age children, including one that attends the Lighthouse School. Can the government confirm if this is correct or not. There seemed to be alot of nervous bodies at the press briefing today as though the true picture wasn’t being told. I am humbly and respectfully asking for someone in CIG to relieve the fears of the public that this is not so.
I agree!! They all seemed “confused” and didn’t really want questions.
Send them back where they came from, or 800 will surely perish!
They came from here as in being Caymanians
No such thing. They may be British Overseas Territories Citizens however
Actually there is such a thing and it is different and distinct from being a BOTC.
Good questions at the press briefing Wendy. There’s no good logic increasing event gathering limit numbers with the island opening.
Politically rallies…
To support a funeral of family member of MLA