Barbados Today December 20, 2020
The next eight to 12 weeks are expected to be a testing time for Barbados due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Minister of Health and Wellness, Lt Col Jeffrey Bostic said Sunday.
In his end of year message, the Minister noted that as of 6 p.m. today, Barbados has conducted 9,991 COVID-19 PCR tests for December alone, of which 46 were confirmed cases of the virus.
“As we get set to commence this week of Christmas preparations, I urge each of you to be on your guard. Already in the past 24 hours we have heard of eight new cases. And, as Minister of Health and Wellness, I have the authority to notify you that already today we have confirmed six additional cases, three of these involving a single non-Barbadian family,” he said.