Five new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Thursday by the Ministry of Health.
The latest cases are:
• A 45-year-old man of Grand Bahama with no history of travel.
• A 43-year-old man of Grand Bahama with no history of travel.
• An 84-year-old woman of Grand Bahama with no history of travel.
• A 73-year-old man of New Providence with a history of travel.
• A 27-year-old woman of New Providence with a history of travel.
All five are in isolation at home.
The total number of confirmed cases is now 124, with 20 of those active.
Health officials are reminding the public to practice the following measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
• Wear a face mask when you leave home;
• Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, and if soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 70% alcohol;
• Cover your cough or sneeze in your inner elbow or with a tissue; and
• Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces such as phones, remotes controls, counters, doorknobs, and keyboards.
Comments
SP 4 years, 4 months ago
This is a joke, we will see the true result of the stupidity with opening the borders to the U.S. at the end of July!
DDK 4 years, 4 months ago
BTW, the North Abaco report yesterday was, thankfully, a false alarm - something to do, perhaps, with a shell fish allergy, according to a senior Government employee......
thps 4 years, 4 months ago
good news
TalRussell 4 years, 4 months ago
Sad news Ma Comrade DDK, if accurate then we're possibly using Dollar Store obtained tests can't distinguish between strains of the killer virus and a shellfish allergy? This is much more than fuzzy statistics put out by The Central Authority as the PopoulacesOrdinaey at large POAL seems to grow increasingly concerned about their health and safety.
thps 4 years, 4 months ago
Comparing the numbers from yesterday 2 additional persons have been hospitalized.
ISpeakFacts 4 years, 4 months ago
The Ministry of Health is a complete joke, a person was hospitalized on Monday and one more was hospitalized on Tuesday, yesterday's chart should have had 2 persons in hospitalization...but of course the chart was wrong because our crayon eating Ministry of Health is consisted of your average Bahamian, a D- educated idiot!
ISpeakFacts 4 years, 4 months ago
7 of the 20 cases are travel related... why on earth are Bahamians traveling to Florida (aka the new epicenter) during a pandemic when they are setting records DAILY, this is the same as a Bahamian traveling to Wuhan in January!
Allowing Bahamians to travel into the U.S, allowing U.S citizens to travel into the Bahamas... there Is a reason why our national average is a D-.
CLOSE OUR BORDERS NOW!!!
ThisIsOurs 4 years, 4 months ago
I dont know if they should close the border, but I do think the finger pointing at bad Bahamians travelling to the US is a straw man argument. The bigger problem is thousands of tourists being allowed to travel here. theyve made the decision to open the border so own the risk.
I've not heard one narrative about tourists behaving badly being a problem. Even after we saw pictures of 3 tourists climbing a fence to get to the beach. Can you imagine what would have happened to them if they were Bahamian? They would have had the book thrown at them, wouldn't have been surprised if they got jail time and most Bahamians including me would have said, well that was pretty stupid. Then we would have heard the whole y'all don't like to listen and yuh guh feel speech. And who knows another message from the CA on how he forced him to resume weekend lockdowns.
The one thing that is clear is there's lots of work to be done to prepare for winter.
mandela 4 years, 4 months ago
We closed the beach on the independence weekend saying we are doing this to stop the spread of the virus only to have already opened the border to all, the cases we are seeing today, this is ludicrous, and a betrayal to our 4mths of sacrifice, because at this rate we are sure to see the country shut down.
sheeprunner12 4 years, 4 months ago
Reopening is a necessary risk ............ What choices do we have???? ......... Reopen and manage with the Covid surge while getting the economy back on track ...... OR remain locked down and drown in our own debt, crime and despair??????? ........ Catch22 at best.
ISpeakFacts 4 years, 4 months ago
Our economy won't come back anytime soon with the few tourist coming into our country, especially since the hotels and resorts are all closed, it also doesn't help that we have Bahamians traveling to Florida and spending our limited U.S dollars!
Typical Minnis follower, all talk and no brains!
Hoda 4 years, 4 months ago
Why is that all talk? It is a legitimate concern to have thousands of ppl, who have no viable skills out of work for how long, a year, a few more months. We have seen the collateral effects of ppl being out of work for three to four months with no savings, rent isnt paid, mortgages stop being paid, we cussing cause social services "line is to long and bahamians shouldnt have to stand in line". It seems like the typically contrarian to say the economy wont come back with the few tourists, what does that mean, everyone knows the economy is not a switch to flip on and off. Have you considered that maybe in nassau, the big empty hotels certainly wont be fillled, in there it would probably be a disaster waiting to happen, but elsewhere, smaller boutique ventures around the country are able to safelt open and employ ppl and manage the risk. Life isnt back to normal, but the obligations of life have not changed. So unless you are going to be the guinea pig for a vaccine i think the reality is everyone has to exercise reasonable judgment, common sense, for the foreseeable future.
Bsshear 4 years, 4 months ago
CLOSE THE BORDERS NOW
FROM, BEN
tribanon 4 years, 4 months ago
I don't think Minnis knows you're Ben Carson trying to give us much needed good advice on the QT. The Bahamian public thanks you any way.
tribanon 4 years, 4 months ago
There's no economy period with out-of-control Covid-19 spread. There will be no significant numbers of tourists or Bahamians patronizing business establishments in The Bahamas in the midst of a major resurgence of Covid-19, especially as our public healthcare system becomes overwhelmed with related hospitalizations.
People are not going to risk getting the potentially deadly Communist China Virus when they know the hospitals and clinics are already overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. That's just a common sense fact and why it was so important for our borders to have been kept closed to travellers from the US. The talk about the need to seek a balance between money and death is just a false narrative put out there by fools like Minnis and D'Aguilar.
Minnis has either wittingly or unwittingly set the stage for him to order that our country once again be totally shutdown and that will mean for Bahamian businesses no local customers in addition to no tourists.
proudloudandfnm 4 years, 4 months ago
Has anyone from our government been in touch with S. Korea, New Zealand, Canada, The UK to try and get test kits?
Tribune, can you ask them please?
proudloudandfnm 4 years, 4 months ago
The governor of Maryland bought 500,000 test kits from S. Korea when he figured out trump was not doing his job....
Have we called anyone? Anywhere?
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