Active COVID-19 cases rise as variant spreads

| 29/03/2022 | 38 Comments

(CNS): Public Health officials said Tuesday that there are an estimated 522 active cases of COVID-19 in the Cayman Islands that have been officially reported, as concerns mount that the significant decline in community transmission earlier this month is now being reversed as the latest highly contagious Omicron BA.2 variant appears to be spreading.

There are still only three patients currently hospitalised for COVID-related causes and just under 100 people have reported positive for the virus over the last three days, including 44 on Monday.

The 7-day rolling average for 29 March is now 39 cases. The Sister Islands also noted two new cases yesterday, bringing the total there to date to 654. Overall, the Cayman Islands has recorded around 20,800 cases of the coronavirus to date since March 2020, though more than 20,000 of those have been recorded since last September.


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  1. Anonymous says:

    I guess the Omicron BS version is next.
    They will have us hooked up to vaccine IVs by Christmas. Yes I’m jabbed.
    And the vaccinations being done in the supermarket doorways is very unprofessional. Disgusting really.

  2. Anonymous says:

    The UK second booster is being made available immediately to those 75+, or with a weakened immune system. It will be released to other age groups in stages. Here is the NHS website with further information. In Cayman it is not being made available at all for reasons that have nothing to do with science or medicine.

    https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/how-to-get-a-coronavirus-vaccine/how-to-get-a-booster-dose/

  3. Anonymous says:

    The UK, the US, Bermuda, and some Canadian provinces have already authorized the second booster. I get that some people don’t want any vaccinations and that is there choice but for those of us at risk, I have to ask why PACT does not want us to stay healthy?

  4. Anonymous says:

    An Israeli study involving a large number of people over 50 has shown that the second booster lowers the risk of death from Covid by almost 80% compared with those who had only 3 doses. Why are we not offering the second booster??? Are we trying to see if people here will also die without the second booster???

    https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1478439/v1/24514bba-2c9d-4add-9d8f-321f610ed199.pdf?c=1648141784

  5. Anonymous says:

    Unless we’re willing to isolate ourselves with quarantine measures that will effectively sequester us from the rest of the world forever or wear hazmat suits, there is no way to stop it.

    Every effort to stop it is futile. Move on.

    • Barry says:

      South Korea reports 1,315 coronavirus patients in critical condition, highest since pandemic began.

      Ready to move on, yet?

    • Anonymous says:

      Good thing this attitude was shelved in previous pandemics or else the human race may have been wiped out.

  6. Anonymous says:

    Linked to the arrival of cruise ships? If so, and the local death toll rises, the gowerment will have a lot to answer for.

  7. Anonymous says:

    29/March/2022

    Mainland China reports 8,655 new coronavirus cases, by far the biggest one-day increase on record. Shanghai accounts for 69% of new cases.

    South Korea reports 424,641 new coronavirus cases and 432 new deaths in a single day.

    BA.2 becomes dominant coronavirus variant in the U.S., CDC says.

    Cases are steadily rising here, and we are allowing cruise ships and abandoning social distancing for parties and office work as we wear our fashionable masks offering little protection.

    • Anonymous says:

      I’m so scared. NOT.

      You go into isolation and take a million shots if you so choose but let each of the rest of us live our lives without regard to your irrational neurotic psychopathic fear.

  8. Say it like it is says:

    Pact needs to remove it’s head from the sand and follow the general consensus in Europe – this latest variant can’t be stopped but has minimal hospitalisations, so live with it like flu, and remove these LFT requirements along with the Gestapo Travel Certificates.

    • Anonymous says:

      THIS!!!! We can’t go backwards. Stop with all the testing and reporting “cases” (what a useless number). Remove all restrictions NOW, including unmasking our poor kids.

    • Terry Funk says:

      South Korea reports 1,315 coronavirus patients in critical condition, highest since pandemic began.

      Is this worth the risk to our people for profits?

  9. Anonymous says:

    yawn….get jabbed, if not expect the consequences.
    make the unvaxxed pay their own medical bills if hospitilised.
    problem solved.

  10. Anonymous says:

    Release the second boosters! People will get sick so that officials can do experiments on our people.

  11. Anonymous says:

    With over 90% of the UK deaths now among the vaccinated, the weekly surveillance report now says this for the current vaccine effectiveness against mortality: INSUFFICIENT DATA.

    https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1063023/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-12.pdf

  12. Anonymous says:

    The BA2 variant is rapidly spreading everywhere on the planet and especially where our tourists come from. It is total idiocy for our Health Department to be doing genome sequencing experiments in order to prove the obvious. How about preventing illness instead?

  13. Anonymous says:

    Refuse vulnerable people access to the second booster and instead bring in thousands of cruise tourists without testing. Perfect non-joined up PACT think. What could go wrong.

  14. Randall Flagg says:

    Even Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming.

  15. Anonymous says:

    Hardly newsworthy these days.

    • Anonymous says:

      What is newsworthy and deplorable is the ongoing refusal of Public Health to start offering the second booster to those at risk.

      • Anonymous says:

        Believe it or not, they are actually doing you a favor as your natural immunity declines with each of the MRNA shots. If you keep taking additional boosters, you will be completely dependent upon them and have no natural defenses left. I hope you’re not good with that.

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