Deputy premier among 900 people with COVID-19
(CNS): Many workplaces were missing employees again when the work-week started Monday, including Deputy Premier Chris Saunders. Public Health officials confirmed that almost 900 people are currently isolating as a result of the continued and steady increase in the numbers infected by the virus. The seven-day rolling average has increased to 68, and 186 new cases were officially reported over the weekend, including nine on Cayman Brac.
There are now an estimated 895 active cases of the virus. Six people have been admitted to hospital, three of whom are vaccinated. Positive cases reported to Public Health during this period are currently as follows:
| Friday | 22/04/2022 | 76 |
| Saturday | 23/04/2022 | 54 |
| Sunday | 24/04/2022 | 56 |
Saunders said he became unwell at the weekend and took a lateral flow test which was positive. “This result was later confirmed by a PCR test,” he said. “I am currently in isolation and working remotely. My wife and son have tested negative thus far and will continue to test daily via LFT. I’d like to thank everyone for their well-wishes and expressions of support.”
Although the DP said he has some symptoms, they are relatively mild. He was able to attend caucus via teleconference on Monday and was planning to do the same for Cabinet tomorrow, Saunders said, adding that he looked forward to testing negative and being released from quarantine once he has recovered.
Meanwhile, Governor Martyn Roper and his wife, Lissie, who tested positive over Easter, were both released from isolation over the weekend. “I was back at my desk this morning,” Roper said in a social media post, as he thanked the HSA and Public Health for their support during isolation.
“They continue to do an excellent job keeping our community safe from Covid. Many thanks for all the kind wishes and messages over the last week or so. We are both fully recovered and feeling fine. I enjoyed getting back on the beach for my daily run. Please continue to follow Public Health guidance and get your booster if you are eligible and have not yet had it,” he said.
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My daughter tested positive on a lateral flow. She is off to school as normal. Thank goodness she is schooled in England where they have realised cowering in fear at something now less dangerous than flu is pointless.
Sending anyone with a contegious virus in public is a horribly selfish thing to do.
Idiot. Learn to live with Covid
Yes. By being responsible. Your daughter may have killed a few people. Wonderful way to raise children.
This is not March 2020. Covid now less dangerous than the ordinary flu and kids have suffered enough. Healthy kids have a less than 1 in 1 million risk of dying of covid. Kids don’t need to skip school to protect those too stupid to be vaccinated.
Diddums. Little sniffle more important than education? According to the the schools’ guidance in England now kids well enough to go into school should go into school and testing is not meant to be happening for kids at home. No masks, no testing, no social distancing, no problem.
Your only mistake was wasting your time testing her in the first place.
Anyone know whether the Governor, testing positive on Friday, was released from quarantine on Monday following a negative PCR test? There are stories of people waiting weeks for a clean PCR, and I thought you weren’t even eligible for the PCR before 5 days.
Article says they first tested positive over Easter weekend, a week previous. Policy since beginning of February, for vaccinated = a negative second PCR or cycle threshold above 32, are free to go. Positive second test defers release and ymmv.
What a rigmarole. If you are positive and well enough to go about your business there is no good reason to be locked up by the state if the only real risks out there are for those too stupid to get vaccinated.
Government should have continued remote working from home – it would have helped control the spread of the virus as well as helping with the traffic problems – less people would be on the roads.
Anyone actually in the hospital or is it just a slight cold?
I don’t answer the phone – full stop. You never know if someone has faked a negative test.
Is he vaccinated ?
Yes, with several photo-ops.
Boostered Oct, 2021:
https://www.caymancompass.com/2021/10/22/governor-and-premier-receive-booster-jabs/
That should put to bed the claim that the boosted “rarely” get reinfected, with the Governor also positive.
Not only bug been caught.
Why no masking at GAIM 2022?
Because the participants know that covid is over?
U.S. reporting more than 50,000 coronavirus cases a day on average, highest since March 3.
Mask up, remote work, sanitize, be courteous, be safe!
So with the population of the US at around 329,000,000 give or take a few hundred thousand, those 50,000 new cases of Covid per day equate to 0.0151975684%
Cayman is 100x higher than USA at 1.5% reported positivity, and inching back up after recent high of nearly 20% in Jan. Only 35% boostered here. Though we may achieved a “well vaccinated” population from a compliant standpoint some time last year, we are no longer looking so great from a clinical preparedness standpoint these many months later…ymmv.
Who cares?
The irrational.
you mean the selfish aholes
Well I’m sure he has been jabbed at least three times. But hey, let’s demonize the unjabbed and require them to quarantine even after getting a negative PCR test at Miami Airport.
Agreed, that is not when they should be demonised. It is when the unvaccinated beg for the vaccine when they are gasping for breath in ICU that they should be demonised. Unvaccinated hospitalisations and deaths should not be included in the data as it gives the false impression that covid is a serious issue meriting serious public health laws fettering ordinary life for the vaccinated.
Poppy do you realize how foolish your post is?
Do explain. I will look forward to this.
Manderson and Roper are peas in a pod.
I will not be eating peas tonight.
Yawn. Unmask our children. End senseless testing. Shut down Travel Cayman.
I don’t answer the phone unless the caller has previously sent me a certified picture of their negative LFT.
Safety first!
Me too. But I also require them to be wearing a mask properly and the photo had to be taken from at least 12 feet away.