Swift action by Grenadian health officials and immigration officers at the Maurice Bishop International Airport (MBIA) on Wednesday night, resulted in the quarantine of 3 Italian nationals who arrived on an international flight.
The 3, who had left Italy 2 days prior, were considered persons of interest to the Ministry of Health (MOH) surveillance and monitoring teams, which immediately screened, interviewed and isolated the visitors from the general population at the airport’s arrival terminal.
During the process, medical experts conducted an extensive probing interview and temperature checks, and with assistance from immigration officials, reviewed travel documents that revealed a specific travel history.
The execution of the quarantine order on the visitors is in keeping with Grenada’s efforts to prevent an outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), on the island. The ministry has also notified the Italian Consulate in Grenada.
Health authorities are also tracking travellers from Iran, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Italy, who have seen steady increases in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases.
The MOH commends all first responders for their efforts and services, and reiterates that all personnel will continue to observe the necessary protocols to ensure their personal safety.
GIS
Wonder if they have kits to test for corona!
What about the cruise ships??
The perfect petri dish for cultivation of infectious human diseases.
They bring little benefit to the most Grenadians in normal times apart from pollution, congestion and a few grudgingly spent tourist dollars.
Just one cruise ship in Japan accounted for hundreds of infections and many deaths. A passenger aeroplane carries a relatively minute proportion of possibly infected people and only for a few hours. Think of 5000 people crammed into a cruise ship for a week or more!! They should be banned. Immediately.
I meant why only the 3 Italian is being quarantine,smh Also am just trying to find out what method of testing is being done and how effective is it ,is screening and temperature checks the same as RT-PCR ?
Quarantine of 3 people on flight does not make sense. Everyone should be screened if there is suspicion of infection. Also the test for COVID 19 is
Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-PCR Diagnostic Panel on respiratory secretions, not CT scan
Now explain to me how does this work ? A plane full of people with 3 persons quarantine and the others left to go free,what happens if one was to be postive let’s say after 13 days of quarantine,? Would the others have to be tested that was left to go free and how would you trace them down and everyone they would of been in contact with for the last 13 days ? ,..(Govt and so called health officials have really fallen on thier heads and brains leak out) God help us all
Question to y’all health officials in grenada what method of testing is been done for COVID 19 ? And how effective is it ? because the most effective test is CT scan, the USA is still trying to come up with a effective test kit ,so what test method do we have in grenada, beside(stupidness) screening and temperature checks
Well done indeed. Grenada needs to also stop certain international flights as well from coming into the country.