No more cases of COVID-19 were discovered at the Ellerslie Secondary School. That news came earlier today from Minister of Health, Jeffrey Bostic, after he toured the country’s lone Psychiatric Hospital, as part of International Nurses Week. Speaking to the media after the tour, the minister revealed that aggressive contact tracing of primary and second contacts of the student who contracted the virus was ongoing, and he was glad to …
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 is suspected to be the source of the infections.
Director of the Psychiatric Hospital David Leacock revealed that all 82 clients and 25 staff members on the affected ward had been tested.