Barbados death toll from COVID-19 climbs to 23 barbadostoday.bb - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from barbadostoday.bb Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Barbados’ death toll from Covid-19 rose to 24 after the death of two women, an 80-year-old Trinidadian and a 75-year-old Barbadian. The Barbadian passed away on February 12 after spending 3 days in the Primary Isolation Unit of the Harrison Point Isolation Facility. The Trinidadian national passed away on Saturday morning after 15 days on a ventilator in the Unit. The Ministry of Health and Wellness extended condolences to the …
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Government will hold a COVID-19 press conference at 5:15 p.m. today.
Speakers will include Dr Kenneth Connell, chairman of the Barbados Drug Formulary Committee, clinical pharmacologist and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences, UWI; Sister Rosanette Cooke, Public Health Nurse and Senior Health Sister Winston Scott Polyclinic; Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand, public health specialist and co-cordinator of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign; and Dr Lynda Williams, president of Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners.
The press conference will be streamed live.
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The Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Association (CTUSAB) has thrown its support behind hazard pay for health care workers, suggesting that while frontline workers are likely to be the first to receive the payment in the current environment, discussions must now be held to extend the payment to others.
Hazard pay concerns came to the fore in recent weeks as nurses at several health care facilities staged work stoppages to demand the allowance, which has been made to employees at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.