April 6, 2021
Unlike other outbreaks of dengue fever in the past, the current increase in cases, not only in Barbados and the Caribbean but also in India, Singapore, and other tropical countries, has come at a time when the world is battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Some people have also had both illnesses at the same time.
One such patient told
Barbados TODAY about her experience in January this year. “I was on sick leave with dengue from January 2 this year when I heard that someone who had tested positive for COVID-19 had come into my workplace shortly before that. I got tested for COVID-19 and that test came back positive.
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