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The country\u2019s latest COVID-19 case may have been infected with the new coronavirus since early last month.<\/p>

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That was revealed by Chief Medical Officer Dr. Rhonda Sealy-Thomas who confirmed that results for a male patient returned positive for the virus on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

On Sunday night, the CMO told state media following \u201cpreliminary investigations with my team, I\u2019ve learnt that this individual might have been showing symptoms since the first week of May\u201d.<\/p>

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\u201cYou could recall that prior to this, our last laboratory confirmed case was the end of April. We were approaching 30 days with no new cases, so preliminary, I think that this individual might have contracted the disease earlier up in May but he\u2019s still showing some symptoms and is still positive as we\u2019ve seen with some of our cases\u201d, she revealed.<\/p>

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\u201cThe contact tracing team, the epidemiology team they have been out all of today [Sunday] doing contact tracing, doing investigation\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

The CMO said the new case emphasizes the need for the country to remain vigilant.<\/p>

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\u201cWe need to continue the social and physical distancing we need to continue to wear our personal protective equipment, that is facemask, continue to have good hand hygiene, wash and sanitize our hands regularly and practice good cough and sneeze etiquette. It\u2019s very, very critical that we continue to do these things because I believe that the vigilance of the public has helped us to remain COVID free for 30 days and we really should not become complacent and we need to continue those practices if we want to stop the spread of COVID or curtail the spread of COVID in Antigua & Barbuda\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s need for concern and I\u2019m certainly concerned that we still continue to see an increase in the number of cases and I want the public to be vigilant, to be aware that COVID is still around, we still have COVID in many countries with transmission and we have to be aware and know we have to continue the practices\u201d, the CMO cautioned.<\/p>

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