Today, Friday 8 January, the Ministry of Health diagnosed 4 new cases of Covid-19 in Grenada.
The new cases are all imported, and arrived in Grenada on 2 January 2021, via the JetBlue carrier from the United States.
The individuals are 2 males and 2 females, ranging in age from 28 to 50. Upon arrival, they proceeded immediately to state quarantine, where they were tested on day 4, as per Grenada’s existing testing protocols. They will remain in quarantine until they are retested and medically cleared.
These 4 new cases bring Grenada’s total of active Covid-19 cases to 8. Six of them are travel related and 2 are from the December cluster.
The Ministry of Health is cognisant that the virus is rampant in several of our source markets such as the United States, from where many of our own brothers and sisters travel. As a result, officials continue to strengthen systems to ensure that Grenada is able to catch and stop the virus at our borders or while travellers are in quarantine.
State quarantine is becoming the mandate, as the Ministry, in recent days, tightened restrictions and moved away from approving requests for home quarantine. Currently, all countries are being treated as “high risk” countries, and the protocols for travellers entering Grenada are standard.
As several countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, have begun administering vaccinations against Covid-19 to their populations, Grenada, like its Caricom neighbours, is rigorously sourcing and preparing its internal systems for the receipt and distribution of vaccines, which will help the population fight the virus, and mitigate severe illness and death in the event of contraction.
The Ministry continues to urge the population to do what is necessary to avoid contracting and spreading this deadly virus.
The steps are clear: wash or sanitise hands frequently, wear a mask over nose and mouth when in public spaces, maintain physical distancing, obey the rules for quarantine and isolation if tested positive or if exposed to the virus, and avoid large social gatherings.
Public health continues to be our collective responsibility.
GIS
The focus should be to get vaccines , to protect and prevent infection. Locking down countries causes more harm than good. Science has to be the way out of this quagmire, the ONLY way that will prevail. The US and UK etc are vaccinating their people and over the next few months we will see the benefits. SCIENCE SAVES
Regrettably the Vaccines were never designed to prevent catching the virus, only to reduce symptoms… Which considering the small number of active cases all of which were infected must surely make it hard to determine whether it actually reduced symptoms or not. How would we ever know how severe the participants would have been affected in the first place.
The vaccine does not stop you catching anything, it “may” reduce symptoms, which as over 80% of the people probably would never have anyway, and their is a 99.997% chance of not dying if you are under 60, with only a 95% chance of not dying if you are over 75. Considering the vaccine is maybe 90% effective people with adequate immune systems are better protected than by the vaccine.
Finally it was never designed to stop transmission, and there is no “science” as yet to indicate it will, so this wonder vaccine will not stop you catching anything, will not stop you being ill, and will not stop you passing it on. ergo it is pretty useless except as a means of keeping you controlled by the State, and as a way for the Pharmacueticals to make around 70 Billion Dollars, and introduce you into systematic compulsory vaccination.
You have no clue what you are talking about. The vaccine is design to give you antibodies and that PREVENTS you from catching the virus. If people do not get sick they do not transmit.
Instead of arguing about whether or not tourism is important, and the other topics you are bickering about, I have a suggestion: This disease can be properly controlled by following established protocols. All sectors which depend on foreign or imported factors can operate at 100% capacity if established protocols are gollowed. Any and all blame for active coronavirus in Grenada falls squarely on yhose of you who do not follow protocols. One example is the bus system and lack of mask wearing by drivers, conductors, and passengers. Yesterday I refused to board 4 number 1 busses because they were not wearing masks. On 1 occasion they put masks on when I asked and once the bus started moving masks came down. I departed the bus without paying. The point is you need to stop bickering because the solution to this starts here at home. The economy can and will flourish if this first step is adhered to and supported by members in the community asking their friends, neighbours, and associates to follow protocols.
I have commented on this news article – twice but have found that my posts are being deleted? Why would that be…..
At least they were put into quarantine. We these persons returning home? If not why are people boarding planes to come here. People what don’t you understand about COVID-19. Stay home in America, Grenada anywhere you are..could help save lives.
Jackie. Plain and simple: Our Governments continue to put money ahead of lives. The virus is raging overseas but we insist on bringing it here. Highly irresponsible decision by our “caring” governments!!! Utter rubbish.
If we go under lockdown again grenada would become a poor third world country because government would go broke and people will run out of money. thats why teachers need to stop begging for money and people need to save their hard earned dollars. we will be able to run on the inside but not for a while. tourism dollars will dissapear. thats why we cant go under lockdown.
I don’t blame tourists and foreigners. I blame the Grenadian people for not social distancing and not wearing masks. just because there is no deaths does not mean people should not protect themselves from this virus. I want grenadian people to stay at home and stop going out. there is no need for you to do so.
Your position is seriously flawed: First, Tourism is not the sector that is keeping our economy alive. Its the domestic sector that is.
Second, we are already a third world country and poor. And tourism is keeping us poor with the minimum-wage and less than minimum wages paid in that sector.
Third, this is a lethal virus and letting it in – to save the Tourism God that is worthless – is going to eventually destroy our country’s health and our struggling economy.
But if that is what you support you have the Government’s 100% support for sure. The problem is that people like you are never around to help pick up the pieces when all is lost because off when such dysfunctional policies fail.
How about you go and read financial reports that your own government puts out on http://www.finance.gd before you make those statements. in 2019 the import was 634 million vs export of 47.4 million that is the deficit of 586 million while in 2018 the deficit was 580 million… so no domestic sector does not exist. Grenada imports food.. tobacco.. crude materials.. fuel.. oil.. chemicals… machinery .. etc. and all of them are increased… at the same time food exports (cocoa, nutmegs, mace, fish, etc) went down by 11% which shows that farming industry cannot sustain itself. So as it stands right now, tourism is a HUGE chunk of Grenada’s economy.
I am not a Grandian, but I love the island and had been coming there for the last 10 years for work and pleasure. It hurts me to see what the country is going through. I was on the island on november 7th and it made me cringe from the processing procedures in the airport, when they forced all 100 something people that came on my flight into a small room designed maybe for 50 and we had to sit there until our numbers where called to be processed. As far as I was concerned if anyone was infected in that room, we all were exposed to it. All of us and all of the workers staying there with us on top of each other.
I want to see Grenada’s economy to grow and rely on other sectors besides tourism and for the island to flourish, but with the current government I doubt it will happen. Chinese will keep taking over the island starting with the hotel and airport and all those loans that country cant really pay back at this point.
So you are saying that the locals should stay home and the tourists should come and enjoy our country? Right! I get you! But I beg to disagree. We need to focus on planting our own food, do more agro processing and start looking markets for our unique products.
Grenada doesn’t really have any unique products. Cocao, nutmeg, off shore fishing, and all of those other agricultural products s are easily imported from variety of other countries. Unless you have some rare earth metals hidden away, I would focus on tourism lol.