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Barbados recorded 207 new positive COVID-19 results for February 13, 2021 from 1 222 tests conducted by the Best dos Santos Laboratory. The new cases comprise 97 males and 110 females. Three of them were people who were previously sent to Harrison Point Isolation Facility in St Lucy for assessment to determine whether their positive PCR test result showed they were newly positive or had COVID-19 in the past and …
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Health officials have taken control of a senior citizens’ home which has been designated as an isolation facility after 31 patients tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19).
This was among the issues addressed by Minister of Health and Wellness Jeffrey Bostic today while speaking during a live press conference on the management of COVID-19. Bostic said while there is community spread of COVID-19, it is not too late to reverse this trend.
Prime Minister Mia Amor Motley, chairman of the Cabinet Sub-committee on COVID-19 Senator Dr Jerome Walcott, Infectious Disease Specialist and head of the Isolation Facilities, Dr Corey Forde and Senior Medical Officer of Health Dr Anton Best also participated in the press conference.
A 62-year-old Barbadian man who was a patient at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility in St Lucy became the 15th person on the island to succumb to COVID-19. This latest death came on Wednesday, the same day that the Ministry of Health and Wellness rolled out its community based intervention, Operation Seek and Save. The programme, which is engaging health care specialists, other professionals and interviewers, will go into communities …
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A 93-year-old Barbadian woman brings to 16 the number of people who have died as a result of coronavirus (Covid-19).
A statement from the COVID Communications Unit today said: “In the early hours of this morning, February 4, the disease claimed the life of a 93-year-old Barbadian lady. With her passing, the number of Covid-19 related deaths in Barbados now stands at 16.
“At the time of her passing, the senior citizen had been a patient of Harrison Point’s Secondary Isolation Ward for 11 days, having been admitted there on January 24. As with the majority of persons who have died from Covid-19 in Barbados, chronic noncommunicable diseases of hypertension and diabetes were part of the lady’s medical history.”