The Ministry of Health has recorded 4 new positive cases of Covid-19 in Grenada.
It is important to note that 3 of those cases are consistent with the transmission of the disease, given the proximity of contact between them and previously reported positive cases.
- Case 38 is a female, who arrived in Grenada from the USA on 15 November and has been quarantined since.
- Cases 39 and 40 are male and female, ages 59 and 56. They are the 2 other people who have been quarantined on the yacht off the coast of Carriacou with Cases 35 and 36.
- Case 41 is the son of Case 33, who was a close contact of Cases 31 and 32.
These 4 new cases, as well as the 7 reported previously, have all been in quarantine, and tested as per Grenada’s protocols.
The Ministry continues to be encouraged by the level of diligence and vigilance displayed by the frontline team, including health professionals, Royal Grenada Police Force, Contact Tracers and the Airport and Seaport staff, who continue to exercise their duties with the highest levels of due diligence, care, attention and patriotism. Together, they actively protect Grenada’s borders; enforce quarantine orders and aggressively source contacts, if there is external exposure.
It is through the efforts of the frontline team that the Ministry can report that all eleven active cases are imported or import-related, and there is currently no evidence of local or community spread in the tri-island State of Grenada.
Despite this heartening fact, the Ministry of Health continues to review and tighten its procedures to meet the ever-changing and demanding nature of Covid-19. The public must also continue to exercise caution and observe the health and safety guidelines from the experts, because the virus is unpredictable. At any moment, any breach or public exposure to the virus can have potentially devastating effects on our population.
Let us always keep in mind that we have lost more than 100 Grenadian brothers and sisters in the United States, United Kingdom, and other places, due to Covid-19. In the United States, over 250,000 lives have already been lost to this dreadful disease. That is almost two and a half times the population of Grenada. Stay alert. Be compliant.
The safety measures continuously promoted by the Ministry are the most effective means of protection against Covid-19. Recent data from the World Health Organisation show that if 95% of the people around the world wear masks or face coverings over the nose and mouth, there would likely be no need for lockdowns. Imagine how much more controlled the spread of the virus would be if everyone were to also practice good hygiene, ensure physical distancing of at least 6 feet from others who are not in their households, avoid large gatherings, and comply with quarantine and isolation measures, as mandated.
The battle against Covid-19 is one that can be won if we all do our part.
GIS
That’s the same foolish talk being pushed in these USA. The economy, the economy the economy. If your population continues to be infected and die from the out of control COVID spread, how the …….. you expect the economy to survive and thrive. Lockdown yes, if you have to.
June,
Grenada recorded 41 positive cases with no death or serious hospitalizations.
Responsible management if implemented will not require lockdown.
SEE WHAT I TELL YOU. Is not only foreigners but your own locals. and you see. people are so brainwashed into thinking tourism will bring corona. it has nothing to do with foreigners and corona but the people of this country who come from big foreign. when they get a chance to go home under home quarantine they go out spreading covid like wildfire. JONNY THE PROPAGANDIST IM WAITING FOR YOU. LETS SEE WHAT YOU WILL SAY!!!!!!
Regarding the Carriacou cases…
The yacht arrived in Carriacou on 12th November, of the 4 yachters on board, 2 tested positive on day 4 (16th November) and the remaining 2 passengers tested positive on day 8 (20th November).
Can we not use this to understand that 4 days quarantine is not enough. Even if you test negative on day 4, there is still an incubation period for the virus that can goes beyond 4 or even 7 days.
We need to go back to 14 day quarantine for everyone POINT. BLANK. PERIOD. Once your 14 days are up then you are free to move around.
I don’t believe that increasing the quarantine from 4 days to 7 days will make a significant safety difference but it will certainly have a very negative impact on tourism…. can we please take a balanced view here? Right now it is too heavily biased towards safety without much consideration to the economic impact of these decisions…..
What is wrong with you? Tourism is your first concern? Negative impact on Tourism is your continuing concern about it happening now when it isn’t safe. I was stranded on Grenada for 8 months before I could get a flight home. I felt safer on Grenada than my home country now that I am back. STOP your stupidness. I lost a lifelong friend to Covid 19. HE DIED!! He was one of the first and they have NO IDEA how he caught it because he didn’t travel. This is a warning to everyone. It is just that easy to die from Covid 19. I would rather be under lockdown and have my friends and family ALIVE!!! than worrying about them due to people who want to have freedoms that just spread the disease. QUARANTINE is 14 days. Not 4 Not 7 or anything short of that. More testing needs to be done world wide to capture those who are spreading the disease by being ASYMPTOMATIC. You are bitching about frigging tourists that are POSITVE plus they are jumping quarantine. If you want to visit any island in the Caribbean you should be prepared to spend 14 days in QUARANTINE!! Or just stay in your own country. I hope to return to Grenada within a year and I want to see those I love ALIVE and WELL. NOT DEAD. Safety first or there will be nothing for anyone to enjoy about Grenada or the rest of the world for that matter. Anyone just wantng to just hop away from Covid for a quick holiday is an idiot. The world cannot accommodate that nor can a tiny island like Grenada with no Medical Care. Wake UP!!
Your brain is twisted by money.. COVID 19 kills
well you remain poor and will remain poor. unless you go plant a few crops.
Let’s hope for the measure that put in place for December 1st we something positive coming out of it and no more of covid cases coming to our shores,things done hard already with the majority of hoteliers are home and no help from anyone.