Where Research Meets Response: Supporting the Fight Against Covid-19 in Barbados Direct Relief calculated increased vulnerability to Covid-19 in Barbados, and responded accordingly with support to the Barbados Defense Force. Barbados, shown in Direct Relief's Covid-19 International Vulnerability Index map. (Direct Relief image) For months, Barbados avoided a major outbreak of Covid-19. At the end of 2020, the island nation – with a population of about 287,000 people – had seen fewer than 350 cases, and only seven deaths, said Lieutenant Colonel Junior Browne of the Barbados Defense Force....