Year on from first tragic case, 5 test positive for COVID
(CNS): One year on from when the first positive case of the coronavirus was confirmed in the Cayman Islands, another five people tested positive on Friday, all arriving travellers. The first positive case was in a patient who was brought ashore after he had a heart attack aboard a cruise ship. The 68-year-old Italian man was admitted to Health City in critical condition. While he was hospitalized he developed a cough and was tested for COVID-19, but sadly later died. He was one of just two people who tested positive and later died in the Cayman Islands, where there have been just 468 coronavirus cases in total and no community transmission since last summer.
Currently there are 36 active cases of the virus among the 809 people in quarantine, two of whom have symptoms of the virus, though neither have been hospitalised.
Following a tragic year around the world, where 2,650,000 people have already died, the virus is still infecting people at an alarming rate. However, the rollout of vaccines is now beginning to have an impact on the spread, with over 335 million doses having been administered so far.
Here in Cayman, over a third of the adult population has received at least one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and over 10,000 people are now fully inoculated with both doses. The vaccine programme is now open to all groups and everyone over the age of 16 can attend the airport vaccine centre, where a name related rota is being employed to prevent overcrowding.
Category: Health, Medical Health
There’s really not.
CNS at least tries to educate the more moronically inclined.
AstraZeneca blood clotting issues… the number of people with blood clots would be expected in a sample of the sizes of people who were vaccinated, regardless of being given the injections.
There’s only one regular inbound flight on Friday’s right now, and that’s the KX3601 from Kingston. Why are we still running this flight during the record-setting third wave in Jamaica? That’s a special kind of stupid.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/jamaica/
https://www.moh.gov.jm/covid-19-clinical-management-summary-for-sunday-march-14-2021/
Because residence have the right to come home, workers need to travel, Someone wants a holiday off island and needs to come home….What ever the reason it nothing to do with anyone one else. Are you the travel police?
Q. Why is Cayman Airways running direct flights to and from La Cieba every Thursday? Can anyone explain how that route has become so essential? What is being loaded onto those flights right now?
This flight only comes once a month.
We need to fire the Postmaster General Sheena Glasgow and Chief Officer Kenneth Jefferson. A year into this, they are still telling the world’s postmasters not to deliver any mail destined for the Cayman Islands, because they can’t be bothered to figure out deliver via BA and CAL. Not even sure that’s legal. Worse: I have USPS priority mail, with a tracking number, showing a receipt scan at Grand Cayman from December 2020. Where is my property? At a time like this, how can this determined obstruction not be answered with pink slips? In the USA and UK this grade of obstruction is a criminal act, rewarded with fine and imprisonment of 6 months.
May be the only country …ops…territory in the world where non delivery of mail is usual and customary with zero consequences.
Cayman National postal system is under control of the government wich has completely failed its duties.
Isn’t it time to file a complain with the Universal Postal Union? Each member of the the Universal Postal Union agrees to the same terms for conducting international postal duties. The Cayman Islands is a member of the Universal Postal Union.
P.S. I recently mailed from the US an international express mail package which was delivered to the recipient across the globe in 7 business days. It was not a direct shipment, it changed planes several times. So world’s mail delivery systems are working, EXCEPT IN CAYMAN.
Sheer laziness
The mid to long term side-effects of this ‘vaccine’ are entirely unknown. This is not an opinion. It is a fact! It takes YEARS to find out if a new drug is safe.
The stinkin’ vaccine hasn’t been Approved! It is ONLY administered under Emergency Use Authorization! So not only mass media blocks free speech and opinions, but they also lie to us about it!
I see. Using inverted commas for the word vaccine. It’s definitely, 100% proven to be a vaccine.
Yes, the side effects are not fully known, but I’d rather take a chance with ‘science’ that is based on previous generations of vaccines, than to risk contracting COVID19, but that’s just me.
Nobody is forcing you to take the vaccine, so quit complaining
Things do sometimes take years to be clear, however, I’m hedging my bets as I don’t have years to wait, and have other more pressing issues.
This scamdemic is the gift that keeps on giving…to the select few.
What a total crock. The whole thing reeks of tyranny and those involved in pushing it down our throats with their fearmongering will be exposed.
That’s 4.4% positive, which is about the same as the positive rate on new tests currently where I am in the US (maybe a little higher.) It looks like quarantine is working well but that the 72 hour negative test requirement is pointless.
Hopefully there will soon be a vaccine to cure stupidity and all politicians are required to be vaccinated. Then and only then will the world get back to normal.
Haley Link Brinkmeyer, 28, died January 21, 2 days after she received an mRNA shot believed to be either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccine.
CNS: Worth reading this first – Fact-check: No link between COVID-19 vaccines and those who die after receiving them
and then the whole Daily Mail article here.
The cause of death does not seem to have been established but has been pounced on by an anti-vax website. Her mother “allegedly spread conspiracy theories that the vaccine was created for ‘depopulation’.”
I suggest you do a little more research before posting dumb things.
Good luck getting any doctor who still wants to practice medicine in America to blame the vaccine. Doctors in America will never blame a vaccine for causing injuries or death, because their careers will be over, and they won’t even be able to get hired as a merchandise shelf stocker at a pharmacy.
This is only a possibility.
This is not just antivaxers that you can handily dismiss, CNS. There is plenty of real concern about the AstraZeneca vaccine.
People who plan on having children must avoid inoculations with experimental concoctions.
DO NOT HARM must always come first!
Experimental? You enjoy your experimental polio vaccine or you rather chance that?
Were you living under a rock and have just crawled out?
Polio vaccines have been around for DECADES! The Covid vaccine has barely been around for MONTHS and is still in “emergency use authorization” stage. Poor comparison.
Over the age of 16 or 16 and over?
Oh for god’s sake….just go to the HSA site or public health England….if you are aged 16 the vaccine has been approved for emergency use.
It would be interesting to know how many are testing positive who are under age 16, as those are not eligible for the vaccine. Are they major carriers?
Yes, it’s not interesting because it’s been known for a year! Im wondering if you are the Groundhog Day of covid. Wouldn’t that suck to re-live 2020 over and over and over while everyone else has read up on the latest info as it’s 2021.
Of course, under 16 can test positive but they’re rarely ill with it. They’re not any more likely to spread it than anyone else.
Schools are open all over and there hasn’t been the super-spreader events people had anticipated.
I’m curious the number of incoming travelers under 16 with it because of the change of quarantine regulations. As our 14 year old cannot get vaccinated, we will all need to quarantine for 14 days if we choose to travel this summer (the rest of our family of 5 have been vaccinated).