Five travellers test positive for coronavirus
(CNS): There are now 36 active cases of coronavirus among the 904 people in isolation after another five travellers, who presumably arrived on the British Airways flight, tested positive for COVID-19 from a batch of 393 test results. Four of those with the virus have symptoms but none have required hospitalisation.
With concerns mounting around the world about the various mutations and the more contagious strains that are emerging, the need to keep an ever-tighter cordon around those in government quarantine and isolation has increased. As a result Travel Cayman has introduced a hotline which the public can call to report suspected quarantine breaches.
The Breach Tips Hotline is 943-7233 (943 SAFE), which will be monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by the Travel Cayman team.
All calls are confidential and the identity of anyone reporting breach information will be not be shared publicly or with the person(s) being reported. Once the call is received, a Travel Cayman representative in conjunction with the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) will investigate the allegation.
“The success of the quarantine at residence programme is based on a multi-layered protection approach, which incorporates a number of different strategies such as the use of monitoring technology, PCR testing, personal responsibility and penalties,” said Dr Tasha Ebanks-Garcia, the director of Travel Cayman. “The addition of the hotline will add another layer of protection to further strengthen our protocols to safeguard the community against COVID-19.”
Officials said anyone found in breach of the mandatory quarantine provisions will be warned for intended prosecution and will be liable on conviction to a fine of up to CI$10,000 and imprisonment for up to two years.
Anyone with travel questions should contact the Travel Cayman team via email TravelCayman@gov.ky
or call 1-345-945-0556 / 1-345-946-7858
Phone lines are open Monday through Friday 8.30am to 5pm.Breach Tips Hotline: 943-7233 (943 SAFE)
See the consent form and the Vaccination Plan Brochure in the CNS Library here.
For more details on the vaccination programme and the vaccination schedule, visit the HSA website here. And for testing to accommodate new international requirements, see here.
For more information on COVID-19 in the Cayman Islands, visit the CIG site here.
Category: Health, Medical Health
If someone tests positive and they are unable to come home until they are negative (perhaps 2 weeks later) will they still need to quarantine on arrival seeing as they have literally just recovered?
With the growing number of highly infectious variants there, it’s plausible that you can recover from covid only to get another case due to catching a different variant. So yes, it’s probably good to err on the side of caution and stick to quarantine protocols.
Travel Time isn’t exactly turning anyone down for non-essential travel right now. I called CAL to cancel a flight and the operator tried to convince me to book something else before this summer. Why are CAL are anywhere near Travel Time and acting as gatekeepers to Public Health? How dumb are we?
Riddle me this: how on Earth are the public supposed to be tasked to stand on guard to report Travel Time breaches when the public aren’t even afforded the proximal courtesy to be informed who of their neighbours around them are quarantining travelers? Not everyone can rely on mental telepathy in the same way as Travel Time seems to. The way this is being run, we are so incredibly lucky not to have community transmission. Hope everyone gets better that is ill.
Got your pitchfork ready?
too many travelling for nonsense reasons.
btw cig should stop the poor little rich kids from coming home for easter to see dearest mommy and daddy…
What do you have against children visiting family members? Or is it that they have more money than you and that’s why you have so much against them? If they quarantine they have every right to visit.
Maybe if you’d worked harder at school…
If passengers are having symptoms upon arrival, obviously they’re having them before departure. Why are they putting others at risk??!!
Firstly it doesn’t say anyone had symptoms on arrival, it says 4 of the 36 in quarantine have symptoms. Secondly of course it’s possible to leave with no symptoms and develop them over a 10 hour flight, just as it’s possible to test negative on departure and positive on arrival.
Why is it that Some folks are just bent on trying to spread this virus worldwide if you know you have been exposed stay your friggin ass home in your own country. Yet they are putting laws in place to fine people and jail those coming from Red zone countries who lie .
Errr, Cayman is their home country – I think Covid is seriously making people dumber.
Do you think these are all Caymanians returning home??
You dingdong – we are allowing those that own property here to come here. We are allowing those with work permits to come here.
Having a work permit here does NOT make Cayman your home country.
Owning property here does NOT make Cayman your home country.
People are still living their lives. World over!
Having a work permit makes you legal residence…..I guess that make it your home!
Have a hart! This is not the great killer like Ebola!
People ARE living out there. We are working, going shopping, traveling etc. We just make sure to wear our masks, social distance and wash our hands. Trying to get a vaccine soon, too.
Stop letting in more people in Csyman,they only costing the Government money for quartine, plus they bringing in the c-virus.
I’m sure you’re a huge benefit to the local economy and government revenue. As for letting more people in; the only people staying in government quarantine and costing you anything are Caymanians returning home, everyone else has to pay for the hotel or isolate in their own property.
Um the only people benefiting from the free “quarantine” is caymanians or permanent residents. Everyone else has to pay or they have a place to stay
I thought people couldn’t get on the flight unless they tested negative?
You don’t test positive the second you’re infected but you probably will do after 2 weeks. If you are infected and happen to fly on the day your viral load passes the test threshold you’ll test negative on departure and positive on arrival; you could even test negative on departure and arrival and still get sick later in quarantine… pre flight testing isn’t a guarantee.
How is this continuing to happen? Not much has changed since the new rules for having a negative test before boarding the flight has been put in place. Someone needs to check as to whether or not these PCR tests are coming from a recognized lab.
Not much has changed except far more people have the virus abroad, pretesting is stopping some of them travelling, so we’re seeing about the same number we did before.
While I agree with you it would be useful if TravelTime could say that. They must know how many people are approved to travel who ultimately miss the flight, right?
I’m surprised to see no “experts” to comment first.
Speedy recovery to all those infected.
The “safe” # should have been in place ages ago.