The following is an update as of 8:45 pm on 27 September 2021.
First confirmed case of Covid-19 in Grenada was reported on 22 March 2020.
| LOCAL (CURRENTLY) | |
| New positive case(s) | 83 |
| Active cases | 1,795 |
| • Imported | 7 |
| • Import-related | 0 |
| • Local | 1,788 |
| Hospitalised | 70 |
| In self-isolation | 1,795 |
| In quarantine facilities | 327 |
| LOCAL (TOTAL) | |
| Confirmed cases | 5,005 |
| • Imported | 129 |
| Recovered | 3,080 |
| Hospitalised | 225 |
| Deaths | 130 |
| RT-PCR tests conducted | 68,889 |
| Vaccinated (1st dose) | 34,023 |
| Vaccinated (2nd dose) | 23,144 |
| GLOBAL | |
| Confirmed cases | 231,703,120 |
| New cases | 286,460 |
| Deaths | 4,746,620 |
| Vaccine doses administered | 5,924,819,985 |
Covid-19 Hotline: 45VIRUS (458-4787) or 53VIRUS (538-4787)
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You people are begging for Australian draconian laws in Grenada. Coming in the near future.
So more people recovered than died. Proof that Covid is not killing everyone. Make sure you’re right with God. Tomorrow is not guaranteed to any of us.
Who has ever said Covid kills everyone? The Human Race would become extinct if it did.
Please let me say this once. Testing g is critical and keeps the virus from spreading because if some test positive they will know to quarantine and not spread it. But if people don’t know they are positive (asymptomatic), then they will keep infecting people…GOT IT??
10 more. Rest in peace. This is too much.
Why are the figures of the number of people recovered from the virus – locally and worldwide – not being published?
Locally recovered are being reported daily, currently stands at 3,080. This in an increase of 221 compared to the previous day’s report.
You can find worldwide figures for yourself but I have just Googled it for you.
Currently there have been 232,611,641 confirmed cases, 209,246,990 confirmed recoveries & 4,762,160 confirmed deaths. The difference (cases minus recoveries minus deaths) is 22,902,491 active cases.
Grenada’s death rate from Covid compared to recorded Covid cases now stands at 2.6%. Worldwide the average death rate from Covid is 2.0%. The UK average stands at 1.8% but over the last three months, with almost 80% vaccinated, the average death rate from Covid has dropped to 0.4%.
If this doesn’t make you want to get vaccinated I don’t know what will. Imagine you are a Covid sufferer in a room with 99 friends or relatives with Covid then two of you are going to die every single day, this figure will obviously reduce as more of you die, when only 50 are left it will only be one dying each day.
Get vaccinated – you know it makes sense.
Agree that many of the the numbers are inconsistent, and it is hard to draw too much from them (for the reasons articulated).
A key stat (which should not be subject to dispute or interpretation) is New Vaccinations. Yesterday, it was 98. For the preceding six days it was 299, 238, 114, 291, 260, 213 (average, 216). To achieve herd immunity, current science suggests we need 75% (or 82.500) of Grenadians immunized. Assuming (i) the current rate of vaccination remains level, and (ii) everyone who gets a first dose, gets a second w/in 6 week, it will take us over 9 months to reach this goal. We do not need another 9 months of this hardship and tragedy. Please get vaccinated (and encourage everyone you know) to get vaxed as soon as possible.
Exactly. Even during the “vaccination lock down weekends” numbers are slowing. If vaccination rates to not increase significantly then total cases, hospitalisation & deaths will spiral out of control.
Sam’s numbers are frightening. They imply that 7 of every 10 persons you meet could have COVID 19! But the CMO has said that the positivity rate is 18%. What accounts for the significant differences in numbers?
You can only base positivity rate on number of tests against number testing positive. This figure will vary depending on number being tested. If people are only going to be tested because they are showing symptoms you will get a higher rate with less tests. When you get many people tested, with or without symptoms, such as at the weekends, you will get a lower rate with more tests. I have explained this before.
I personally don’t understand why the testing is so important. The vaccination, yes. By testing we might have a clear picture and correct numbers but not one infected person less. Don’t we know anyway that the number of infected could be 10 times higher. Just assume we have that much and react accordingly.
The most interesting part of this is if you look at the total amount of testing done. Today was 68889, yesterday was 68770. That means a total of 119 covid tests were performed today. 83 new cases today of those 119 tests. 70% positivity rate. Don’t be fooled by the declining cases, the situation is still bad, if not getting worse. The media is trying to convince you that cases are declining, when in reality, they are just doing significantly less testing.
Get vaccinated.
Exactly what I keep saying. Not enough testing is being done. We don’t have a clue what the real number of active cases are.
Government trying to put a brave gave on the situation. People need to take care of themselves and get vaccinated regardless of numbers.
Anthony
maybe but we can’t test our way out of this only vaccinate our way out…..
I know we can’t test our way out of it. I believe the real number of active cases to be much higher. If Grenadians have access to real accurate figures it might persuade their “heads too hard” heads to get vaccinated. UK & USA both did little testing in the first wave of Covid (from March 2020) both for similar reasons, Trump & Bojo Johnson didn’t want the public to know the real figures, both saying it was a hoax & said it would be over by Easter (2020). Bojo is even on record as saying “So what if a few thousand pensioners die, the rest of us will get herd immunity by recovering”. That didn’t stop Bojo & Trump both catching it & getting far better treatment than the rest of us.
Sam M
Your comments would certainly be accurate if the testing was done at random across the whole population.
However, I suspect that the testing is more focused than that? Testing of persons who have been in contact with known positive cases would be likely to give a skewed result.
Just my two pence worth….
Yeah, exactly! So the only way we’ll know is by the death rate (if that declines this week, then cases are indeed declining). That’s not a good way to manage an outbreak, though (obviously!)
And even if they are declining, Covid is here to stay. Please get vaccinated my brothers and sisters