Grenada on Thursday recorded 2 more Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s total to 172 since the start of the pandemic in March last year.
One of the new cases is a 30-year old unvaccinated female, travelling alone, who arrived on 30 July on InterCaribbean Airways, and whose travel history included Jamaica and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
The other newly identified case is a family member of case #170, the visiting female who tested positive as she was undergoing routine testing to leave the country after a week-long visit.
The Ministry of Health is currently involved in contact tracing efforts, following the detection of case #170, who because of her negative status and test result on arrival, was released from quarantine and who visited 10 different places within the past week.
As a result, the Ministry has so far identified 53 potential contacts who have all been tested thus far. Two have returned negative results, while the remaining 51 results are pending.
While the number of locations visited presents some cause for concern, health officials are optimistic that based on the limited interactions between cases #170 and #171 and their service providers at the various locations identified, the potential spread of the virus will be limited.
Nonetheless, the Ministry of Health is in direct contact with the establishments and is continuing the process of contact tracing. The Ministry encourages residents to continue to follow all the Covid-19 protocols to help safeguard themselves.
Relatedly, the Ministry of Health is still awaiting test results from samples sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for testing to determine whether or not other variants have been detected in Grenada. The test results are expected soon and additional samples are likely to be sent in the coming days. To date, the only variant identified in Grenada is Alpha.
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This is a warning to all those who haven’t been vaccinated: GET THE JAB.
After 15 months of barriered isolation this Chinademic will hit the island big time sooner or later. Our contact tracing has been commendable to date but once it gets overwhelmed and community transmission accelerates there are going to be lots and lots of very sick people, sadly many may not survive.
Irrespective of what Kesri Johnson & the antivax campaigners keep banging on about, the vaccine will save lives and also save people from being really very ill. The health system won’t be able to cope and the best thing everyone can do is help themselves and others by getting vaccinated. It’s a no-brainer.
Your names is spot on. WorriedGrenadian, but quite mis informed.
When someone sees the term “anti-vax, antivaxer,” etc. it’s generally coming from scientifically ignorance or someone with a financial conflict of interest. The truth is more complicated. What the pharma companies have done is buy control of almost ALL of the information sources, and those sources they don’t control, they demonise or suppress with censorship. A peer reviewed study from 2015 found that the strategy being followed by “public heath” authorities of vaccination against symptoms, is likely to lead to more dangerous strains of disease, whether it be viral, bacterial or fungal. Not only that, the vaxxed who survive the initial attack on their physiology, now have a weakened immune system, and are much more likely to die from the next lab created pathogen.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198
The problem in this COVID world is not “anti-vaxxers”. It’s wickedness. “…the love of money is the root of all evil” 1 Tim 6:10
The Government needs to seriously reconsider this cavalier 48 hour quarantine period, as testing negative or not, being vaccinated or not, it takes time…. as illustrated here….. for a newly infected person to test positive. So if they are infected on the way to the airport or in the airport of departure before they arrive, they will innocently be a carrier. 48 hours is just fooling yourself to enable higher footfall for the tourist industry. Vaccine efficacy is falling, virus mutations are increasing further and further away from the Alpha variant. We need a longer quarantine period. If we really care about our population. Otherwise as international flight increase so will our case uptick.
The people of Grenada, Carriacou & Petit Martinique are the ones who need to change their cavalier attitude to vaccination. That is the only way to survive the pandemic without completely destroying our, already weak, economy.
well said sir
Considering the %6400 rise in vaccine related maternity terminations, the hundreds of neurological conditions, some remaining many months after vaccination, the close proximity deaths, just a few hours after vaccination, and the apparent fact that while vaccination “may” reduce symptoms, in most countries other than America whose date seems to be unique, more hospitalised and even death is occurring in the VACCINATED. Only in America it seems are the unvaccinated the problem. Elsewhere the vaccinated are rapidly becoming asymptomatic carriers. Which makes them a bigger problem than the unvaccinated who may possibly sometimes have worse outcomes, but had an 80% survival rate from the get go.