Medical Health
Toddler with COVID needs cash for medivac
(CNS): A local charity has made an appeal on behalf of a three-year-old child currently at the Cayman Islands Hospital suffering complications from COVID-19 as her family is unable to foot the bill to transport her to the United States for treatment. CNS has contacted the Health Services Authority and the Ministry of Health about […]
HSA’s outpatient pharmacy ready to reopen
(CNS): The Health Service Authority has relocated the hospital outpatient pharmacy in George Town to larger premises at the Smith Road Medical Centre, which has been closed for about a year to facilitate the upgrade. The new facility officially opens on Thursday, 17 March.
Cayman Brac’s COVID-19 cases still rising
(CNS): The number of cases of COVID-19 across the three Cayman Islands is falling overall but still rising on Cayman Brac. Sixteen of the 41 new cases reported to Public Health over the weekend were on the Brac, which has a population of just over 2,000. To date, there have been 631 COVID cases in […]
Another patient dies as a result of COVID-19
(CNS): UPDATED: There have now been 22 deaths in the Cayman Islands where COVID-19 was a factor after another patient died in hospital Wednesday. News of this latest death was revealed Thursday evening but there were no details about the individual’s age, pre-existing health issues, when they were admitted or their vaccination status.
COVID death toll jumps to 21 after delayed reports
(CNS): There have been three more deaths in the Cayman Islands where COVID-19 was a factor, according to the latest weekly report by the Public Health Department, which failed to report a death last week at the time and has said that two other deaths have been retroactively ruled as COVID-related, though officials did not […]
Number of COVID-19 patients in hospital drops
(CNS): There are now just five people in hospital due to COVID-19, Public Health officials confirmed Tuesday as they released the latest statistics. The drop in the number of patients reflects the decline in community transmission and the decrease in new cases each day.
Daily COVID-19 case average falls to 34
(CNS): Just over a month after the Cayman Islands was logging record-breaking daily numbers of positive COVID-19 cases, the daily average has fallen to just 34, officials have said. Over the last three days, 80 positive cases were reported to the Public Health Department.
Officials reveal another life lost to COVID-19
(CNS): Public Health has revealed that an unvaccinated patient who had tested positive for COVID-19 died last week, bringing the death toll in Cayman as a result of the pandemic to 18. Officials said that the delay in reporting the death on 21 February was to confirm that SARS-CoV-2 was responsible.
COVID-19 outbreak at Brac old folks home
(CNS) UPDATED: Officials have now confirmed that in addition to the three elderly residents at the Kirkconnell Community Care Centre (KCCC) on Cayman Brac who tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, four staff members tested positive on Tuesday, one of whom was unvaccinated, despite working in a home for seniors.
Turner pushes kids vaccine as virus cases plummet
(CNS): Just 44 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 were reported to the Public Health Department over the weekend, as the official figures relating to the virus move into a rapid decline. There are now an estimated 957 active cases of the virus, and the seven-day rolling average, as of 28 February, fell to 40 cases.
Child sues government over lengthy isolation
(CNS): Eight-year-old primary student Tyler Anglin is suing the government over a breach of his human rights, having been in isolation for over three weeks as a result of continued positive COVID-19 tests, even though he was asymptomatic and health officials could not show he was contagious. In the first case of its kind in […]
