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Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic confirmed a young girl passed away, but the cause of death has not been determined.
Stories making the rounds say the child died on Sunday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital from complications caused by COVID-19, but Bostic said a dengue test was being done. The symptoms for both illnesses are similar.
A news outlet from Trinidad and Tobago said the girl died from a condition called Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, brought on by COVID. It quoted Dr Joanna Paul, Acting Medical Chief of Staff at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, who said there were 26 such cases in the twin-island republic.
The Ministry of Health and Wellness joins with the family and loved ones in mourning the passing of Barbados’ eleventh COVID-19 fatality, as reported earlier today. The female, 48, passed away at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility where she was a patient for just under two weeks. The Barbadian was on a ventilator as a result of respiratory complications from a range of health issues and comorbidities. The middle-aged woman …
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There is community spread of COVID-19 in Barbados.
Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic made the disclosure during Saturday’s COVID-19 management update by the Government of Barbados which was streamed live from Ilaro Court, confirming what many suspected after the cases mushroomed at the end of 2020.
He still can’t say if one of the variant strains is on island as the samples are in the queue at the Caribbean Public Health Laboratory in Trinidad and Tobago.
For several weeks, Government and health officials shied away from the term community spread, instead focusing on the clusters which broke out on the West Coast, South Coast and at Her majesty’s Prison Dodds.
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Minister of Health and Wellness Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic says there are fewer than 1 000 COVID-19 test results still to be cleared at the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. The minister said the lab was in the last stage of erasing the backlog which was caused by technical issues and overwhelming numbers in late December and early January. Without giving a timeline, Bostic assured the public the backlog would …