The Ezra Long Laboratory continues to manage the backlog of COVID-19 samples.
Today Sunday January 31, 2021, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received confirmation of 216 new cases of COVID-19 from a batch of 541 tests conducted at the Ezra Long Laboratory.
This batch consists of samples taken over several days, from the period January 21, 2021 to January 29, 2021.
The Ministry of Health also received confirmation of the recovery of eight individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 bringing the total number of active cases in country to 769.
The individual who was in critical care over the course of the past week is no longer in the Intensive Care Unit and is currently stable.
Today, The Ministry also reports that two of the active cases required admission into critical care and all of the others are stable.
All of the cases are Saint Lucian nationals who range in age from 8 years to 82 years.
These cases are from all districts nationally.
These individuals were seen at community-based respiratory clinics for assessment and were tested for COVID-19.
They were placed in quarantine by health care practitioners while awaiting their COVID-19 test results.
Arrangements have since been made to place them into isolation.
The contact tracing team has commenced investigations to identify the contacts of these confirmed cases.
Today, the Ministry of Health also reports two COVID-19 related deaths bringing the total number of deaths in country to date to fifteen.
Death #14 is a 72 year old male from the Gros-Islet district with no known medical history.
Death #15 is a 21 year old male from the Babonneau district with no known medical history.
Both individuals were in care at the time of their passing.
The Ministry of Health expresses condolences to the families and loved ones of these individuals.
The new cases now bring the total number of cases diagnosed in country to date to 1411.
With the upsurge in cases, the Government of Saint Lucia is looking at stricter measures to curtail the spread of Covid-19, increase and improve testing capacity and to ensure there is adequate space for quarantine and isolation.
As previously announced by the Office of the Prime Minister, there will be a NEMAC-stakeholders meeting this week to discuss strengthening COVID-19 prevention and control
protocols.
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8 year old sick
21 year old dead
All because Caribbean countries would not close their borders to diseased outsiders and protect their own people
And when the borders re-opened? What then? Think we could remain in a bubble forever?
Covid is like AIDS…protect yourself!!!
Everyone has to breathe
Masks do not protect you 100%, especially if the best masks (N100, P100, N95) are not available.
People have to rely on their governments to protect them by not allowing thousands of potentially diseased people to enter a country every month.
Someone should show the St. Lucia stats to the group of young people who gathered at Fryers Beach yesterday afternoon for the motor bike event. The onlookers were not practicing social distancing and most, including the bikers, were not wearing masks. The government can do so much to try to protect us but each individual, young and old, has to protect themselves and their families from Covid-19 and all its negative effects.
People could be living normal lives inside the country without worrying about this disease
I think thereis a very glaring and obvious picture here. Regardless of whether borders open too soon or personal responsibility must be accounted for, which I agree are very important, it is an undeniable fact that St. Lucia is putting out FAR MORE & BELIEVABLE information that what we have not done and cannot do up to now. My questions to the health authorities are why, why can we not get more data as to the demographics of the Covid-19 cases?Why can we not see a complete analysis, like what St. Lucia has done and is doing, to present to the citizenry. I think….no…I KNOW that the Ministry of Health would come across as being very plausible and transparent if we are to see the data which has been disaggregated. No excuses please. We the people of Antigua and Barbuda deserve better from our “professionals”.
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