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As Psychiatric hospital COVID cases rise, staff decline tests Article by May 7, 2021 A spike of COVID-19 cases at the Psychiatric Hospital has been complicated by a disturbing trend of staff members refusing to be tested for the virus, according to Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George. As the cluster of cases reaches 50 – 49 males and one female – Dr George revealed: “There has been some reluctance on the part of some members of staff at the Psychiatric Hospital to get tested. Declining the test leads to an extension of quarantine from five days to two weeks to ru...

Restrictions to remain untouched for now, says minister Article by May 4, 2021 A 63-year-old man has become the 45th person to die from COVID-19 here, the Minister of Health announced Monday while revealing that in a separate development, eight members of a St Michael family have tested positive for the coronavirus. The minister announced the death of the man, who was admitted to the Harrison Point coronavirus hospital on April 23 and was intubated and ventilated for six days suffering from severe acute respiratory illness. While the latest cluster sent the test positivity...

May 4, 2021 The outbreaks of COVID-19 at both the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) and the Psychiatric Hospital are under control, Minister of Health and Wellness Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic declared Monday. He said the two clusters are being handled appropriately and that he was hopeful they would soon end. Last Friday, it was revealed that 15 of the 17 new COVID-19 cases involved patients and staff from the mental health institution and three other people tested positive Monday. A 42-year-old male patient who was recently discharged from the hospital after a three-month stay i...

Viral test backlog declared over – Bostic Article by February 18, 2021 The backlog of COVID-19 test results should have been cleared by Wednesday, according to Minister of Health and Wellness Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic. He gave an assurance that operations at the Best-Dos Santos Public Health Laboratory had returned to normal following the acquisition of a chemical reagent to speed up the process. Lt Col Bostic said it was imperative that test results be brought up to date to make an accurate assessment of positivity rates and the pervasiveness of COVID-19 in Barb...

Govt lab ‘ready to clear test backlog’ Article by February 16, 2021 The Government public health laboratory, the epicentre of COVID-19 testing, is back to full capacity, and expects to clear the backlog of just over 1,800 results in a matter of days, Minister of Health and Wellness Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic said Monday. Barbados had finally been able to source the reagent along with a critical binding agent needed for automatic extraction to be conducted at the Best-Dos Santos laboratory, he revealed. He said Guyana had provided the binding agent, which was exp...