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Social Share People who were tested for COVID-19 must quarantine at home until they receive their results. This appeal has come from Manager of Quarantine Facilities for COVID-19, Alvin Hart, who said some Barbadians were still not doing what they should to help break the chain of COVID-19 infections. In an interview with the Barbados Government Information Service, Hart disclosed that health authorities were picking up entire families with COVID-19, in some cases, because people who were awaiting test results were still mixing with family members instead of quarantining. He added that som...

Barbados recorded 55 new positive cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, February, 23, 2021 from 677 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. Twenty-nine people recovered from the virus, bringing the number of active cases to 783. A 68-year-old woman passed away yesterday at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility in St Lucy, bringing the number of COVID-19 deaths to 32. The 55 new cases comprised 23 men and 32 …

by DevilsAdvocate / February 25th, 2021 We have been asked how we would have responded to COVID-19. We provided our best advice about one year ago, but the Government rejected it at that time. Given the foreseen nightmare scenario, they should reconsider – for all our sakes. Grenville Phillips II is a Chartered Structural Engineer. He can be reached at NextParty246@gmail.com In the past 15 days, we had 15 new deaths. In the previous 15 days, we had 7. In the previous 15, we had none, as shown in the attached graph. This wave of deaths appears to have started after the UK variant arrived ...

The Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory reported 61 new positive COVID-19 cases on Monday, February 22, from the 843 tests that were conducted. There were 28 recoveries from the viral illness, bringing the number of active cases to 758, according to a media statement issued by Barbados Government Information Service. The 61 new cases comprised 29 men and 32 women. Five of them had already been at the Harrison Point …

February 24, 2021 Some staff members in the kitchen of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) have been calling for its closure after a colleague in that section recently tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. But Executive Chairman Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland has said the kitchen is too critical a facility to shut down and alternative measures have been implemented to protect those workers. A number of kitchen staff told Barbados TODAY after the positive case was made known, management allowed employees to continue operations as usual and did not ask them to get tested. One staff membe...