5 new cases of COVID-19 in Antigua

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The most recent reports received by the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment from the Mount St. John Medical Center (MSJMC) and the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) have revealed five new laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases in Antigua and Barbuda as of Wednesday 30th September, 2020 at 6pm.

Subsequent to the publication of the dashboard on Wednesday 30th September, 2020 with the cut off time of 6pm, twenty-three samples were processed at the Mount St. John’s Medical Center’s Laboratory which increased the pending results from fifty-four to seventy-seven.

All twenty-three samples processed by MSJMC yielded negative results and are reflected in the total samples taken and total tested columns of the dashboard.

Of the fifty-four samples processed by CARPHA, five returned positive while forty-nine were negative. Investigations are currently ongoing.

Meanwhile, two new recovered cases have been recorded bringing that total to ninety-four.

Consequently, the total number of persons with laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases in Antigua and Barbuda is one hundred and six (106) with nine (9) active cases.

The dashboard has been updated to reflect these changes.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. Oh lord! Run for the hills 9 people have coronavirus… OH LORD COMMUNITY SPREAD LET’S RUN AND HIDE ..LET’S LOCK UP EVERYBODY, $50,000 if you don’t wear your mask … NO BEACH INDEPENDENCE DAY …. ALL BLACK PEOPLE ON THE PLANE MUST QUARANTINE AND GET FINED $70,000!!!

    BUT ONLY THE BLACK PEOPLE THOUGH… WHITE FOLKS ITS BUSINESS AS USUAL.

    NEVER MIND THAT PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO BE SAFE AND EXIST NORMALLY IN A WORLD WITH CORONA, THAT MAKES TOO MUCH SENSE

    RUN AND HIDE AND USE NO COMMON SENSE.

    MR MOLYWN JOSEPH, WHO HAS BEEN IN POWER SINCE 1300AD , WITH NO NEW AND EFFICIENT WAYS OF DOING ANYTHING EXCEPT SAYING LOCK THEM UP AND FINE THEM OH YES AND DONT FOEGET THE TRACKING DEVICES.

    ANTIGUA IS A POWER HOUSE THE FIRST TO USE TRACKING DEVICES, WE ARE VERY ADVANCED.

    NO RUNNING WATER BUT, WE ARE THE FIRST IN THE CARIBBEAN, I HAVENT HEARD OF ANYWHERE PUTTING TRACKING DEVICES ON PEOPLE WHO ARENT EVEN POSITIVE …

    YES RETURNING NATIONALS EVEN WITH A NEGATIVE COVID TEST WHO ARE TOLD TO QUARANTINE EVEN IF THEY ADE NEGATIVE, WILL BE COLLAR WITH A TRACKING DEVICE !!!

    YES PRIME MINISTER …YES GRANDPA MOLWYN JOSEPH … SUCH A WELL DESERVED KNIGHTHOOD.

    AND DONT WORRY ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF WHO THINK AT THIS POINT, THAT THIS IS A HEIGHT OF NONSENSE AND THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS INSTILLING SUBMISSION OF A SIMPLE PEOPLE THROUGH FEAR…

    NEVER MIND US AT ALL… YOU JUST KEEP INCREASING THOSE FINES ON SIMPLE POOR ANTIGUANS … MAKE IT $80,000 FOR BREAKING CURFEW!

    IM SO GLAD I LIBE IN ANTIGUA AND NOT ST KITTS, ST KITTS OVER THERE USING COMMON SENSE, BUT THATS SO OVER RATED.THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR BORDERS FOR SO LONG, SINCE MARCH AND THEY ARE STILL CLOSED, 8 months LATER, THEY HAVE NO COVID, THEY ALREADY HAD LIKE 3 FETES! THEY GAVE THEIR CITIZENS STIMULUS PACKAGES AND MONEY WHILE SHUTDOWN … STILL DOING IT … BUT WHO NEEDS ALL OF THAT,

    WHEN ANTIGUA CAN JUST FINE PEOPLE AND LOCK THEM UP.. BUT NOT JUST ANY PEOPLE! BLACK PEOPLE!
    WHITE PEOPLE GET TO GO TO THE BEACH …

    HOW CAN ST KITTS BORDERS BE CLOSED SINCE MARCH???? THEY MUST BE AN ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE!!! OH NO MY BAD! THATS ANTIGUA … THE COUNTRY WITH NO RUNNING WATER … MY BAD …

    GREAT JOB GOVERNMENT…. CARRY ON! AS YOU WERE!

    • Run for the hills you a kill me –
      Lawd Mi Belly …lol …well I never laugh so hard … this is funny.. sad and unfortunately very true but funny as hell.. grandpa molwyn is getting knighthood lol .. look this coronavirus a Mek ebry bady crazy!

      But real talk watch the Antigua people jump in a frenzy… run for the hills indeed.

  2. It’s no laughing matter, most of what you say run for the hills is true. We need a better way.

    I haven’t heard anything else about the electronic monitoring. Hopefully the government will realized its in poor judgement for its citizens.

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