Barbados Today January 9, 2021
Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George on Friday urged the nation’s doctors association to stop criticizing anti-virus protocols from the sidelines and come to the table to join the fight against the Coronavirus.
Dr George made the comments as he appeared on radio with Senior Medical Officer of Health Dr Arthur Phillips, virologist Dr Brendan Larder and a local physician who only wanted to be referred to as Ann, to discuss the country’s response to the COVID-19 protocols.
The medical chief’s response capped a week in which the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) lodged several critiques against the rules and called for stricter measures to stem the surge in COVID-19 cases.
The continued breaching of COVID-19 protocols by visitors is proving to be one of the major obstacles in the fight to get to the bottom of the current spike of positive cases in Barbados. Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George said yesterday that investigations in the last few days had revealed that the breaches of quarantine had forced the Ministry of Health to find more resources to look into …
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.
Barbados: Curfew ‘upsetting’ sex workers
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(Barbados Today) – Local sex industry expert Charles Lewis on Tuesday appealed to health authorities to work with the sex trade to mitigate the impact of commercial sex on the spread of the coronavirus.
Declaring that sex will always sell regardless of whether there is a pandemic, recession, or any other global crisis, Lewis said that the 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew now in effect until January 14, has caused some upset among sex workers, as much as it has other businesses that operate at night.
Lewis, the founding leader of the Adult Industry Association, told
Curfew ‘upsetting’ sex workers
Article by January 6, 2021
Local sex industry expert Charles Lewis on Tuesday appealed to health authorities to work with the sex trade to mitigate the impact of commercial sex on the spread of the coronavirus.
Declaring that sex will always sell regardless of whether there is a pandemic, recession, or any other global crisis, Lewis said that the 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew now in effect until January 14, has caused some upset among sex workers, as much as it has other businesses that operate at night.
Lewis, the founding leader of the Adult Industry Association, told