Jul 16, 2021
Dr. Kristy Murray
Currently in Belize from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas is Dr Kristy Murray, a medical professor who has been collaborating with the Ministry of Health since 2017 on a number of health-related studies on pathogens and causes of a wide variety of diseases. Hence when COVID-19 hit, we already had the infrastructure in place to work on studies with them on this virus. Now she’s here to study how well our people have been adhering to the hygiene campaign.
Dr. Kristy Murray, Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
“People here work hard and appreciate any help that they can get and we’re happy with any help that we can give. We’re actually going to bring a couple here from Central Medical Lab to the United States to Houston to train. We’re going to train them in our labs and they’re gonna come back with all the knowledge with them so that all of it can be done here in Belize so that samples don’t have to be se
Jul 9, 2021
Aldo Sosa
With as many as ten COVID-19 variants across the world, some Belizeans are questioning the effectiveness of the vaccines against these variants. That is one of the questions we posed to Senior Medical Technician at the Central Medical Lab, Aldo Sosa earlier this week.
Aldo Sosa, Senior Medical Technician, Central Lab
“While we all know that it does not stop you from getting infected, it does generate this high situation of protection against the disease being much more severe against a persons. And of course also, following our other protocols you know. Simply taking care where we go, taking care of our own health as well, if we have some kind of flu symptom to seek medical attention as well, and safe guard those around us, especially the most vulnerable population.”
Jul 6, 2021
COVID Variants in Up to 30% of Test Samples
While fears and speculation about the Delta variant continues and the results from Baylor University are not yet in, News Five has learned that unidentified variants have been detected in up to thirty percent of recent samples taken from active COVID-19 cases – samples that for the most part originate from northern Belize. News Five’s Paul Lopez went to the Central Medical Lab today to talk to the technicians about this disturbing new twist in the pandemic.
Paul Lopez, Reporting
The lab detected its first set of variants of concern in samples sent from the Northern Health Region in Orange Walk.
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