Intense search still on for Patient Zero
Article by January 9, 2021
Patient Zero, the source of the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, continues to elude public health authorities, they said Friday, but they insisted an aggressive contact tracing exercise is making headway.
They also maintain that the spike does not reflect community spread of the coronavirus. Community spread usually occurs when someone gets the virus without any known contact with an infected person.
Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George and Senior Medical Officer of Health Dr Arthur Phillips made it clear that Barbados has not reached the stage of community spread of the coronavirus.