One more GTPS student COVID positive
(CNS): On Saturday morning Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee reported just two positive cases of COVID-19 from another 1,246 COVID-19 tests carried out over the last day. One was a student and one of the last people to be tested from the outbreak at George Town Primary School; the other was a traveller. There are now 18 children from GTPS who have the virus.
Nothing was said Saturday about the health of the latest child or how the five children with symptoms were doing. But this means that only 25 cases of the virus have emerged after almost 8,300 tests were carried out over the last ten days since the discovery of Cayman’s first community case of COVID in around 400 days.
Vaccines have also spiked again and now 54,500 people (77% of the population) have had at least one dose, while 50,658 people (71%) have had two shots.
Over 2,000 people have come forward for the vaccine since 8 September and news of the return of community transmission, which is more than were vaccinated in the whole of August when just over 1,300 people got their first dose.
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If 54,500 people (77% of the population) have had at least one dose, could someone tell me how much don’t have it? I’m hearing the population on the island its around 65,000. Then someone told me, its around 70,000. So I am lost about the exact number of unvaccinated here.
“I am lost about the exact number of unvaccinated here.”
Don’t feel bad: the government doesn’t know either.
And what’s the population of the kids that can’t get vaxxed?
Kids don’t need to get vaxed
Yes they will need to.
When will CIG mandate vaccination for all school staff?
Hon Premier we need some leadership here.
Schools have been taking care of that themselves. Any good school has already let go of the unvaxxed.
Many US states have employed a “test to stay” strategy in schools. Instead of quarantining everyone, each asymptotic child who is a close contact takes a lateral flow test in school (simple test with results in 15 min) on days 1, 3, 5 and 7. If remain negative can continue in school. Some offices are using this as well.
Can’t lock up a whole school/class and their families for 14 days each time there is a positive. Same with an office.
These are the kinds of practical strategies Panton should have been working on over the last 4 months. Complete lack of practical contingency planning. Instead, complete panic and unpreparedness. We needed a plan to “live with this”, not the nuclear option of staying shut until the end of year (when COVID will still be around).
You must mean UK schools are using that! I’ve never even heard of lateral flow testing until Dr. Lee talked about using it to visit his parents.
Most US schools are open and in person….many have been back in person since August 2020 and never had to shutdown again.
Everyone I know, their kids can go to school unless kid tests positive or has Covid symptoms without a test. Our students don’t even have to test (nevermind stay home) just because someone in their school, class or home tests positive.
Government’s reaction to the GTPS case was major overkill. Given so few positives (25) out of 8000+ tests last week should hopefully calm their nerves, let them regroup, and allow them to reconsider their knee-jerk reaction.
Many US states are. Massachusetts, Utah, Illinois…..
One positive doesn’t shut down a school or office.
True, but that depends on whether you are adopting a zero Covid strategy (China/Australia/New Zealand) or not.
Thank you! We are supposedly “following the science” but no one is doing what we’re doing in Cayman. It is insane.
I am immensely disappointed there are no lateral flow tests available. Children should not be subjected to the PCR nose swab – it is very invasive.
The overreaction and panic is alarming. Shutting down and entire school and forcing all families into a 14-day quarantine can not be approach next time (and there is a guaranteed next time) this happens. As a community, we should not accept this!
Test at other schools. It is a moronic thought by CIG to think that the virus only exists at one school. COVID is all over the island, like anywhere else in the world. Live with it like the rest of the world. People are vaccinated, no serious cases in the hospitals. Open the borders and get on with life!
A parent has just been identified having broken quarantine by selling food. Her husband apparently spotted in local nightclub.
They will continue to laugh at the quarantine rules if there is no fear of prosecution.
Enforce the rules for goodness sake.
Perhaps like the Brac trippers they “weren’t aware” of the restrictions.
Prosecutions are required ASAP. The flagrant violation of the law related to COVID has to stop.
We went after that Georgia girl didn’t we?
We need to do the same to stupid Caymanians too.
Or just drop the rules because not 1 person is on a ventilator. Trust the damn science not the scared.
They will continue to laugh at the rules because they are silly…
10.45am It depends where you are from. Take the family who flew to the Brac with their GT Primary child 3 days after the school outbreak and the enforcement team “believed ” their claim they knew nothing about it!.
Who cares if they are positive, the concern is how serious the illness is. If these people are not showing signs of illness, why do we continue to test? COVID is now endemic, this is the reality, we need to stop being so alarmed about the fact that people are contracting COVID, and focus on the number being hospitalized. We are all going to be exposed to COVID, but the entire purpose of herd immunity is to protect the majority, we simply can’t avoid spreading this virus. Be grateful we live in a first world nation w an extremely high standard of living and lets get on with living.
Also agree with most of this but we can’t dismiss the fact that it is a potential killer. I would like to know really with this “outbreak” if it was due to irresponsible breech of quarantine protocol tho. Guess we will never know as looks like many getting away with not following the rules! Get vaccinated or seek natural defense, follow the rules and we can go back to some sort of normality. Can’t go on like this like this in constant fear and being locked down from the world.
So much hysteria over a disease that is here to stay and which is less harmful to kids than the drive to school.
Okay Instagram doctor.
What has it got to do with Instagram? It’s just the facts: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57766717
As expected. New covid cases not really news anymore.
how come many students had flu like systems at cayman academy and was anyone tested. There had to be concern for they closed schools
How many of these cases are asymptomic?
When we are over the “Chicken Little” phase can we please get back on track to reopen?
If 18 children are positive, how many parents, siblings, grandparents, are now infected?
Oh my we are all doomed! Never opening the borders as may cost us some votes so best to just stick our heads in the sand and let it all play itself out.
Getting close to 80%
Does not matter if we at 75,80 or 85…
This government has confirmed it is no longer following science but is basing it policies on the fears and anxietys of some parents…zzz
Welcome to wonderland.
Yet PACT thinks we need to regress in our plans! Bunch of spineless things! All along telling us to trust the science and then they follow fear and won’t trust the science. Untrustworthy bunch of buffoons. No wonder Dr. Lee wants to get out of here.
Hats off to Health City and HSA for running this volume of tests with such turnaround. We are very fortunate to have them!
Please not another prayer and 3 hour nonsense press conference. I can’t take any more of these late gibbering pointless CIG updates. Just get on with life please. We are a uk territory.. follow the us as we always have done and we will be fine.
USA? We would all be dead if we followed them. UK same thing.
I meant Uk not us
Not necessarily all of the USA but we would be dead if we had followed Floriduh and the idiot Governor there who rejects all advice from Florida doctors and teachers too.
Can’t believe the ignorance in terms of public health policy coming out of my state and the complete rejection of science there.
Not sure where you are getting your news, but I totally disagree. Florida has taken a sensible approach and has handled it quite well. The governor there has take a science based approach, unlike many other mismanaged states like California, who think lock-downs are the only answer.
DeSantis has made sure everybody can get vaccinated by partnering with pharmacies, and also has monoclonal antibody treatment centers everywhere, to deal with those who can’t or won’t get vaccinated.
You would all be dead or ill if the UK had not supplied you free of charge a vaccine programme. You should be grateful to them, not knock them at every turn.
Would show themselves somewhat respectable and professional if they could start one meeting on time. What a joke, mind you Alden was always late as well
With the incubation period this is not unexpected.
Yes, I am sure 2 weeks from now, there will be a lot more cases. There will be people who have been exposed, caught covid, but aren’t yet testing positive.
I expect they’ll find a few more if they test all the kids again in 5 days too.
I’m incubating at home, don’t want to pop out just yet.