Nine more GTPS kids COVID-19 positive

| 16/09/2021 | 122 Comments
Cayman News Service
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(CNS): In addition to news of a prison officer testing positive for COVID-19, indicating a potential third outbreak on Grand Cayman, officials have reported that nine more students at the George Town Primary School tested positive in the results collated this morning after yesterday’s testing. Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee recorded a video at lunchtime Thursday in which he said there were ten new community transmissions and four positive travellers among the morning’s results.

But this was before it was confirmed in the afternoon that a staff member at WORC is currently in isolation following contact with an individual who subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. That person is now isolating as they await the result of their test and other staff members are working remotely.

It is not clear the extent of the current outbreaks but there are at least 25 confirmed active cases of the virus that have been acquired in the community.

While the coronavirus, most likely the Delta variant, is now apparently spreading locally, Dr Lee said the numbers are not yet significant. Reassuringly, he said more than 6,000 people, close to 10% of the population, have been tested over the last week since the first reported community case and “relatively few” of those tested, only around 25 people, have been positive so far.

However, testing and tracing is not over and Public Health is still trying to trace and test a few students and their families at GTPS. Dr Lee urged people connected to this outbreak to remain indoors in isolation until they are advised otherwise by Public Health.

CNS has requested confirmation that the first child who tested positive is the only child with symptoms, and we are awaiting a response.

Meanwhile, the prison officer is vaccinated and although suffering symptoms he remains in isolation at home. Dr Lee said that the news of the virus getting into the prison was of concern because of the living conditions of the inmates, putting the prison in a difficult position. He said prisoners were particularly vulnerable and he appreciated people will be worried about that.

Officials have not yet confirmed any further cases at the prison or whether the officer in question has any connection to the individuals in the North Side outbreak or the one at GTPS.

Meanwhile, another four travellers who were in isolation have also tested positive for the virus.

According to the latest official statistics, there are now 52 active cases of the virus, almost half of which are community transmissions. Details on how many people are symptomatic have not been supplied yet, though the woman in her 70s who was the first community case remains in hospital.

Vaccine take-up is rising steadily. Currently, 54,167 people have had at least one dose, an increase of 233 on yesterday’s figure, while 50,442 (71%) have now completed the full course.

See COVID-10 update by Dr Lee on CIGTV below:

See the vaccine schedule on the HSA website here.

For more information on vaccines contact the HSA Communications team at
communications@hsa.ky

See here for more information on securely verifiable vaccination records.

Anyone with flu symptoms is urged to stay at home in the first instance and contact the 24 hour Flu Hotline or your general practitioner to speak to a health professional about those symptoms before visiting the flu or testing clinic.

Flu Hotline: 1-800-534-8600 or 345-947-3077 or 345-925- 6327 or email flu@hsa.ky
Callers will be screened for travel history and advised on what to do next.


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  1. Jtb says:

    Can we drop the pretence that masks achieve anything at all? They’re just a bit of theatre to support the false narrative that anything can be done about Covid. You can get vaccinated or not – your choice. But ultimately, we’re all catching it, no matter how much of our economy, how many businesses and how many lives we ruin trying to put off the inevitable.

    • Anon says:

      I so agree! It’s all visual and voyeuristic. We could all go video game style AI and have a fake mask and no one would care. Masks in fosters make no difference to no masks for Covid spread for example. Personal hygiene and distance is the important thing. But they make people feel more protected so that’s why we wear them. Won’t stop the caymanians unvacccinated breaking quarantine though.

  2. Forces says:

    Do you notice the activities that the unvaccinated are to be banned from are the same activities the virus wants to banned us all from.
    Are you seeing what is happening?

  3. Anonymous says:

    Link to the story below (my sister is a nurse in Philly, which is why I follow Pennsylvania).

    “Vaccines Work: 97% Of COVID Deaths, 95% Of Hospitalizations And 94% Of Cases Are Among Unvaccinated Pennsylvanians”

    “The overwhelming majority of the COVID-19 related cases, hospitalizations and deaths in Pennsylvania occurred in people who were not vaccinated,” she said. “In fact, the data shows that compared to unvaccinated people, fully vaccinated Pennsylvanians are seven times less likely to get COVID-19, and eight times less likely to die from COVID-19.”

    https://www.media.pa.gov/pages/health-details.aspx?newsid=1595

    • Anonymous says:

      I am always curious why someone would “Dislike” the mere presentation of factual information. An anti-vaxxer doubting the information of a state health board?

      What the poster was reiterating, get your damn vax you 10% adult holdout cowards.

      • Anonymous says:

        They watch Fox News and believe in alternative facts.

        • Anonymous says:

          Fox, Trump, etc all support vaccination. Trump forced the vaccine to be rolled out quickly. Is your political view affecting your understanding?

      • Mumbichi says:

        “Cowards”. Little doubt about why you got thumbs down, Sir. I could easily craft an apt single word description of you.

  4. Anonymous says:

    And no one has died

    Imagine that!

    • Anonymous says:

      Lockdown saved lives. Similar islands to us have experienced a significant amount of deaths (if you consider more than one significant) since opening for tourism.
      Bermuda 37
      BVI 37
      Grenada 43
      Turks & Caicos 21

      It’s hard to imagine any other outcome than government being blamed for whatever amount of deaths by Covid occur after reopening for tourist.

      I understand that a lot of expats are here only because of tourism, and have homes to return to once the tourism business is no longer viable either though lockdown or deaths. It’s just a question of settling on the number of Caymanians who will die, and getting someone to offer up family members as sacrifice.

      • Anonymous says:

        Try posting real infomation. How many deaths are unvaccinated.

        Most of the infomation and numbers you quote e.g Turks and Caicos deaths where from before vaccination.
        Turks and Caicos has been open to tourism with a simple pre test no isolation for over 15 months.

        So if we where to open with everyone vaccinated our odds are very good.
        OR
        You can stay locked up for the next 5 to 10 years as this is not going away and we must learn to live with it.

        How many people died from drunk driving here?

      • Anonymous says:

        It is posts like this that mush together facts to make blanket statements that don’t reflect reality. Per Statistica from US studies, there is a 0.1% of death per 100k if vaccinated and a 1.1% chance if unvaccinated. Yes- more than 10X. These numbers should be further evaluated by the fact that
        most vaccinated people are older and have health conditions, meaning vaccines are even better than these numbers. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.statista.com/chart/amp/25589/covid-19-infections-vaccinated-unvaccinated/

        • Anonymous says:

          It’s not 0.1% risk of death according to these statistics. It’s 0.1 death per 100,000 (or 1.1 if unvaccinated) ie 1 in a million chance if vaccinated. The message is the same though. You’re 10 times safer with the vaccine!

  5. Jtb says:

    Government and morons panic as thing which was always going to happen, happens

  6. Anonymous says:

    What happens when everyone gets vaccinated?
    Will this end the spread?

  7. Anonymous says:

    Whatever you think of the quarantine policy there is one major issue I have with the government’s actions:

    There is no reason for this continued insanity with Cayman Airways. Let’s have five flights a week (at least) to Miami. Schedules posted two months in advance (at least). That way people who need to be away can plan. There is no need for “ghost flights”, fake waiting lists, justifying trips and all this other BS.

    Don’t have enough geotags? Fine, allow some random people the trust bracelet. You have 1500 unemployed people you’re already paying, you can increase checks on quarantined travellers by putting 50 of them to work.

    You want a quarantine, fine. But we are far past the point of “emergency” restrictions to the movement of residents to and from the country.

    • Anonymous says:

      Well written and 100% with your CAL comments. If your final destination is Miami, a person might be less stressed at trying to plan a trip. But onward from Miami requires connecting flights and a lot of advanced planning leaving and returning to Cayman.

      Its been a damn nightmare all summer with sold out and cancelled flights. Now everyone who planned on flying somewhere (for me, my former home) for Christmas, has had their plans upended with American and United etc cancelling their scheduled flights. Several people in my office had friends and family planning on finally coming down to Cayman between October and January (many havent seen each other in two years), now those plans are all cancelled.

      • Anonymous says:

        Exactly, was planning on coming to Cayman, first time back in two years to see family and friends and because of the panic and fear, now those plans are cancelled.

    • Anonymous says:

      So you can bring your covid to the US, but we can’t bring our covid to Cayman?

    • Anonymous says:

      I support keeping the borders closed, and I support adding more flights so that residents can travel more freely, subject to quarantine on their return.

      A large portion of the people that are objecting to the closure of the borders couldn’t care less about restaurants or tourism — they just want to be able to go on holiday.

      We can appease the selfish by making it easier to travel, while keeping the risk of COVID very low by keeping the borders closed and tightly monitoring quarantined arrivals.

  8. Anonymous says:

    A zero-COVID policy is futile and unsustainable in the long-term.

    Nothing will be different in January, or April, or next summer. It just takes one single escaped infection to seed the infection in the community and then it will start to spread in the background, and it wont be noticed until it is spread more widely.

    If we remove that 7-day (8.5 in real days) quarantine in January (so that tourism can trickle in), a case or two or more will be seeded in the community on this week.

    • Anonymous says:

      The current surge of COVID in so many of our feeder destinations may very well be over by April or next summer.

  9. Anonymous says:

    Just have a two week shut in at all schools, call it an intensive learning camp of you want, let them all catch it and let’s move on like sane, rational people.

    • Anonymous says:

      This is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard of. Accomplishes nothing. Parents can still bring it home and pass it on to the kids during this proposed school shut down. Another kid can easily test positive the first day of week 3 when school starts back up.

      Why the need to close schools? None of these kids are even sick?

      • Anonymous says:

        Who said anything about shutting down the schools? Learn not only to read but also to comprehend.

    • Anonymous says:

      It’s amazing the stupid stuff people will say when they can be anonymous.

      This may have been in jest but sometimes I think there should be a box on the submission form you have to click which says something like “would you say this if you are liable to have your identity revealed to 10 random people in public”

      I wonder how many people would actually pause before posting.

    • Anonymous says:

      Sick psychopath or sick sarcasm

      Either way, you sick bad

    • Anonymous says:

      I like it, a Covid incubator.

    • Anonymous says:

      And what will you do with the 11% that suffer long-COVID, Mr. Rational?

      • Anonymous says:

        Kids are sort of like a virus anyway.

      • Anonymous says:

        Except you just produced that statistic out your ass didn’t you, Me Irrational. Hon in prove me wrong and cite the source that says 11% of kids exposed to COVID end up with symptoms, let alone long term illness.

  10. Anonymous says:

    Had that child not been taken to the flu clinic, no one would ever have known and we would be carrying on as normal. As we have been doing for the last 18 months.

    • Anonymous says:

      THIS!!!! If anyone thinks these are the only kids with COVID right now, they are missing some brain cells. If every kid (or adult) was tested right now there would be dozens of more cases. Testing positive does not equal being on a ventilator or death. Seriously.

      • Anonymous says:

        Covid has been in the community all along. Cayman has not been covid free. People just have not been consistently tested, but plenty of sniffles, allergies, sinus infections have been going on for the past 18 months.

      • Anonymous says:

        The incidence of positive tests after thousands of surveillance tests performed in recent days (of approximately 10% of our population) suggests otherwise.

        While there are likely other cases of COVID that haven’t been identified, we don’t have any reason to believe it is widespread.

    • Anonymous says:

      I agree that we wouldn’t have known unless the child was brought in but I fully disagree that the virus was here all along. No way.

    • BINGO says:

      B. I. N. G. O.

    • Anonymous says:

      And should be now regardless.

  11. Anonymous says:

    This virus is definitely in the community and we are so much better off than we were a year ago having access to the vaccine. It’s right time to open as the majority are protected.

  12. I wanna know says:

    breakthrough case
    ⁃ Related to the vaccinated?
    ⁃ The virus invade the vaccine?
    ⁃ New variant emerge?
    ⁃ The infected, high probability asymptomatic?
    – Can be symptomatic?
    – Can get seriously ill?
    – Can die
    ⁃ Can transmit the virus?

    Unvaccinated
    ⁃ can be infected with the new variant?
    ⁃ May be asymptomatic?
    ⁃ May be Symptomatic ?
    ⁃ May require Hospitalization and or death if vulnerable?
    ⁃ The virus is not breaking through?
    ⁃ It’s infecting?

    What is driving the new variants?

    • Anonymous says:

      “What is driving the new variants?”

      Unvaccinated people as the virus replicates more in them than in vaccinated.

      Source:https://www.healthline.com/health-news/unvaccinated-people-are-increasing-the-chances-for-more-coronavirus-variants-heres-how

        • Anonymous says:

          What you are missing is the fact that breakthrough cases are far rarer than infections in unvaccinated people. Yes, while breakthrough infections will have similar viral load (via PCR test), this is mostly contained in the upper respiratory tract and doesn’t spread throughout the body like it does in unvaccinated people. This information you linked is primarily about PCR tests and Ct values.

          While Ct values can be used as a proxy for viral load, there are a few problems with trying to assume too much on the basis of that number, especially when it comes to vaccinated people. They are far less likely to contact Covid (5x less likely according to CDC) so there are fewer vaccinated being infected.

          Source: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/08/cdc-unvaccinated-5-times-more-likely-get-covid-19

          In conclusion, vaccinated are far less likely to become infected, far less likely to be infectious for as long, and far more resistant to allowing the virus to replicate past the upper respiratory tract. This, in turn, significantly reduces the chance that variants will happen in vaccinated individuals.

          “(vaccines) play a huge role. If everyone is vaccinated, eventually infections drop to zero and so do variants,“ Parikh said. “But if the virus has an easy host, such as an unvaccinated individual, then it is easy for it to mutate into a more contagious and virulent form.”

      • Anonymous says:

        When viruses infect you, they attach to your cells, get inside them, and make copies of their RNA, which helps them spread. If there’s a copying mistake, the RNA gets changed. Scientists call those changes mutation.

        Once you are infected whether vaccinated or not a mutation can occur.

        • Anonymous says:

          Correct. However, the virus is unable to copy itself nearly as much in a vaccinated person. This significantly reduces the chance a new variant that is resistant to vaccines will emerge in a vaccinated individual.

          • Beaumont Zodecloun says:

            Disagree. I think what you mean is that there is less of a likelihood of a vaccinated person contracting the disease, however once a vaccinated or unvaccinated person contracts the virus, they are equally likely to cause a mutation.

      • Anonymous says:

        Even if 100% of the population were vaccinated. If you cannot eliminate transmission, then new variants are inevitable. That is the science.

        • Anonymous says:

          If we were 100% vaccinated, the virus would die out because it has no where to go and no one else to infect.

          • Anonymous says:

            What part of the vaccinated can catch and spread did you not understand? If the vaccine completely irradicated transmission then your statement would be true.

            • Anonymous says:

              Actually, you’re almost right, but not quite. The problem with the COVID vaccine is that immunity fades rather quickly (though memory of how to fight the virus if infected remains). However, IF 100% of the population were to be vaccinated within the time period that the it still offered immunity to the first of the vaccinated, then theoretically, the virus could die out. I do realise that this is impossible in practise, but the poster did preface his statement with ‘if,” so I believe the comment could be construed as theoretical.

              • Beaumont Zodecloun says:

                Actually, you’re close but not right on. The Pfizer mRNA vaccine which is available here, does not confer complete immunity, but certainly protects the person from severe and life-threatening effects.

                Had we (the world) had the time to create an adenovirus-introduced vaccine such as the seasonal flu jab, we would have had a better chance of entirely eradicating the virus.

                I’m not slagging the vaccine — it has saved many, many lives and continues to protect people from severe illness and death.

                The seasonal flu jab is around 60% effective, but because of the cocktail of viruses addressed are rarely exactly those which have mutated to travel around the world. They are completely effective against the specific viruses which are presented in the innoculation.

                The Pfizer has allowed infection of the vaccinated from the original Alpha, clear through the Delta and presumably those variants which will follow. It’s a good vaccine.

      • Hubert says:

        Just get friggin vaccinated people.

        Stop being stupid.

        Look at who are being hospitalized in the U.S. and Canada. The unvaccinated. The few vaccinated people that are being hospitalized all had underlying conditions such as obesity, diabetes, asthma and cancer.

        Time to get smart people of the Caymsn Islands.

    • Anonymous says:

      The vaccinated, as they already have virus of the same family in them already. When they get infected, they are the one who create new variants as they have 2 different virus of same family in their system.

  13. Tony Stank says:

    This is just one instance that was actually detected, so there are likely many many more. The CIG is correct in erring on the side of caution and safety here because the people cannot be relied on to act responsibly on their own. It’s the world we live in now.

    • Felipe says:

      Agreed that there are likely many more.
      Disagree with the need to be more restrictive.
      On the contrary, this shows that the vaccine is working and that kids are less at risk of serious illness.
      This should give us confidence to open up further.

    • Anonymous says:

      People can’t be relied upon to make their own decisions has been an argument used by tyrants for thousands of years.

      It’s so scary how quickly people are willing to cede their hard-won fundamental rights out of fear.

      I say this as someone who agrees with vaccinations and restricted public health measures.

      But turning control of my freedom of movement (for years, not just for a short duration emergency) and right to decide what I put in my body to the Cayman Islands government is not a world I want to live in. Sorry Tony. Your opinion stinks as much as your name.

    • C'Mon Now! says:

      We have 25 people out of 6,000 tested coming back positive. That is a test positivity rate of less than half a percent 0.5%.

      This is with active contact tracing hunting for the virus in the community.

      Cayman is still in a really good place and we have likely benefitted from the fear that has driven some vax holdouts to go get shots.

      I doubt we can get to the 80% threshold without approval for 5-12 year olds to get the shot, but what is CIG going to do when the public health measures prove to have worked as intended and we move to a period with minimal community spread. Maybe a handful of asymptomatic cases a week.

      There will always be the risk that someone gets really ill, but are we going to stay cut-off from the rest of the world indefinitely…

      There are a number of serious questions to be answered and all we get is a complete clown show of press conferences, inconsistent messaging and close to complete ignorance of the known facts.

      Cayman is not the only place in the world affected by Covid-19, but we don’t seem to learn much from other areas.

      The math on spread seen in other countries doesn’t support the Zombie Apocalypse predictions and nonsensical comments of the various Doomsayers.

  14. Anonymous says:

    These cases are all mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. That’s very reassuring! Hope they all recover quickly.

  15. Anonymous says:

    I would bet that the school has a much lower rate of parental vaccination than other schools. This is a great illustration of the social responsibility we all have to each other to get vaccinated.

    • Anonymous says:

      What are you talking about? Patient zero for the reemergence was fully jabbed and infect a child. Get off your high horse with the social responsibility bull crap. The Cayman data won’t lie just keep an eye on it. Few people are going to take the booster.

    • Anonymous says:

      You clearly haven’t met the parent body of SJACPS

  16. Tony Stank says:

    In before the “kids will be alright” “vaccinated can’t spread virus” “CITA is right” “its ok in America” OAN and Newsmax crowd

    • Sense says:

      Ok, I will indulge you …

      The kids will be alright: In general, yes they will – https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57766717

      Vaccinated can’t spread the virus: Yes they can

      CITA is right: Yes they are

      It’s ok in America: Depends where in America – some places better than others. At least they recognize they have to live with the virus.

      OAN and Newsmax: Yes probably not the most reliable of news channels, but could just as easily say CNN, who also push their own narrative, just from the other side. Wouldn’t trust them for accurate impartial information either.

  17. Anonymous says:

    We need to just move on. Drop all quarantine and trust the science.

    • Anonymous says:

      This is the problem. People do not trust actual scientists and doctors – all whom have studied for years and did research papers and tests. People say they have “researched” but google isn’t research! Social media has definitely dumbed down the human race.

  18. Anonymous says:

    It’s time Government tell us that it’s inevitable that everyone might get it. It’s accepted elsewhere. The important addition is, of course, that if you’ve been vaccinated the chances are very high that you aren’t going to be very ill nor admitted to hospital. No point in getting upset about this spread as it’s just happening a few weeks earlier than it would have done when the borders are opened, whenever that is.

    • Anonymous says:

      “Elsewhere” lost their battle with Covid. We alone prevailed, and that is a position unique to the Cayman Islands. So after all this sacrifice, you think we should stop the contact tracing and just throw open the doors?

      You might have a rich daddy whose hotel is nearly empty, but I do not.

      • neverwannabeacivilservant says:

        1.02pm You sound like a civil servant, not a care in the world as you will not be affected if our borders are closed for years.

      • Anonymous says:

        Nobody is going to “win” against covid. It’s here – it was ALWAYS going to arrive at some point because Cayman is unable to sustain itself without interacting with the rest of the world. Did you really think that if we sat it out – for what would essentially be – forever, that we’d be ok? Cayman is not exempt from this – nobody is.

  19. Anonymous says:

    This Government has failed us. They reversed the policies that kept us safe since the beginning of the Pandemic and this is the end result. The Unity Government stopped community transmission and kept the virus out of the community and in 5 months the PACT leadership has let it back in, blamed the public for being complacent, and now are supporting forced vaccinations.
    They should have never stopped the electronic monitoring of isolated cases.
    They should have never dropped quarantine to 5 days.

    Further, they have destroyed tourism for the foreseeable future.

    We need to go back to the polls.

    • Anonymous says:

      You can’t have it both ways – they let the virus in, and the destroyed the tourism sector. Which is it? Oh and BTW your PPM didn’t do a hell of a lot for the tourism sector either now, did they?

  20. Anonymous says:

    I just don’t understand the lack of any form of plan or leadership. Maybe the government didn’t expect the locals to be so bad in terms of not getting vaccinated quickly and not respecting isolation rules. But this is a joke.,. Half the island that drive the economy are expats, how do they plan travel when they don’t know if ghost flights will fly or when they will be free to come and go despite being vaccinated since March. At this rate there could be an expat brain drain which would destroy the financial services industry, being eighty per cent of the cayman economy, cause economic meltdown and mass,poverty, with no qualified and experienced caymanians to replace them. This is a dangerous game… why after 18 months is there no suitable plan to live with Covid like the UK and other countries for example. It all just makes no sense at all and is a gigantic overreaction. The reopening plan was a lie… how can anyone have any faith in or believe anything the government say going forward. It’s like they dangled a carrot then it turns out it was all a lie.

    • Anonymous says:

      No one is leaving Cayman at least not in mass proportions. Life too sweet! Fake news.

    • Anonymous says:

      You really underestimate the resilient nature of Caymanians and why we have become a power house. Trust me, we will be 100% fine.

    • Dorothy says:

      I agree with your post, with the exception of “no qualified or experienced Caymanians to replace them”. Qualified Caymanians are placed in the lower positions but have to train those at the top. I can say this because I was in a lower position and had those at the top asking me how to do something and also had to edit their correspondence.

      • anon says:

        You must be a civil servant. Be patient you will soon be made an “actor”.

        • Dorothy says:

          3:22 FYI, I never worked with government. By hard work and dedication I moved into a top position where I could ensure that the people that were hired could actually do the job BTW, I’m now enjoying retirement.

  21. Anonymous says:

    Perspective: Although you might get alarmed at hearing children testing positive for COVID, keep in mind this just isnt a fearsome pathogen for those under 18.

    In the US, cumulative under 18 yrs deaths of COVID positives is 425 (as of Aug 26). There are 74 million people under 18 years in the US. That is a rate of .00057%.

    Its been 10 months since the adult vaccine was granted emergency use, but regulators are taking their time approving a children’s vaccine, precisely because there isnt a medical emergency with children.

    The key benefit for society of the children’s vaccine will be a slowing of the spread to older people (CDC said this week that a vaccinated person is 5 times less likely to get infected than an unvaxxed person, and you can only pass on the virus if you get infected).

  22. Anonymous says:

    how many in hospital?…that is the only important number

    • Anonymous says:

      It is not as important as the number 9.

    • Anonymous says:

      To scale your political anxiety to fit the clinical reality: ballpark how many people comprise the 30%, aka the potentially hospital-bound unvaccinated – factor those by R0, and subtract that product from the static capacity of 30 or so ventilated beds. This is not Miami. Our zero to crisis runway is alarmingly short.

  23. Anonymous says:

    Good that primary school children are at no risk from having the virus and as long as their parents and grandparents are vaccinated there is absolutely nothing to worry about. Let’s move on to issues that actually might have an impact on our lives. Global warming, the fossil fuel CUC burns everyday and the dump spewing toxic goodness only knows what into CIS

  24. Anonymous says:

    25 positives with only one symptomatic out of 6000 tests raises a concern if the tests r false positive.
    Will be worth testing antibodies after three weeks especially of unvaccinated that will confirm if they were really infected.
    Positive side of it is one or two with minor symptoms not to worry as we have flu like that.
    Just get vaccinated avoid crowds eear mask in indoors and even in open space when talking with others or in crowds we will be ok.

  25. Anonymous says:

    Why 8s the government trying to find who to blame for the community spread, rather than accepting that they messed up by removing the monitored tagging…which allowed some selfish people to let themselves loose.

    • Anonymous says:

      Sigh – because

      a) that might not be the source – your are making an assumption with zero data. It’s important to find out the source so if necessary actions can bet taken to prevent it – so for example, if its a taxi driver shuttling people to quarantine they need to improve controls over quarantine transit – and conversely not take actions that are not addressing the problem, and

      b) the original source may still be walking around infecting other people.

      I know you just want to blame someone and move on, but your suggestion is not really geared to resolving the problem, is it.

  26. Anonymous says:

    When would they start testing students in other schools, especially other ones where siblings of GTPS students go? We will then know the real numbers!

    • Anonymous says:

      Why would this be a good idea? What are they going to do – shut down every school every time there is a kid who tests positive? These kids have zero symptoms or maybe a runny nose. The overreactions are alarming!

  27. Anonymous says:

    How many had even the foggiest idea that they are “sick”?

  28. Anonymous says:

    This is completely horrible, when will it all end?
    o more people in or out of the country and shut everything down but grocery stores on the same schedule as before. The goverment needs to give every Caymanian $500.00 per week in food cards to grocery store until all the Covid is gone.

  29. Anonymous says:

    Vaccinated vs unvaccinated number, please!

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