FOUR more deaths were recorded on Thursday - following two confirmed on Wednesday in the latest date from the Ministry of Health.
Yesterday, 37 new cases were confirmed - with 30 of those in New Povidence. Of the remaining seven, four were in Grand Bahama, while three had their locations pending.
The deaths confirmed yesterday were of a 59-year-old man from Eleuthera, who died on October 6; a 66-year-old man from New Providence, who died on October 4; a 78-year-old man from New Providence, who died on October 21; and a 49-year-old woman from New Providence, who died on October 23.
Of the two cases confirmed on Wednesday, one was an 82-year-old New Providence man who died on October 27 and the other a 35-year-old New Providence man who died on October 26.
They push the death toll to 142. Nineteen deaths are currently still under investigation.
In Wednesday’s update, which was issued yesterday afternoon, officials noted 38 new cases. Thirty of those new cases were in New Providence, four were in Grand Bahama, three were in Bimini/Cat Cay and one in Exuma.
The total number of cases following both updates is 6,644, while the total number of tests is 35,435. A total of 88 people recovered yesterday, bringing the total number of recovered cases to 4,345.
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joeblow 4 years ago
I heard on a news report last night that Taiwan has not had one new case of COVID 10 for 200 days. People need to stop making excuses for the ineptitude of our healthcare team managing this pandemic!
TigerB 4 years ago
I check that story, its true. There it is below but notice the other factors. Especially enforcing quarantines... Bahamians don't want that part.. so we cant compare the 2 countries.
"Taiwan holds the world’s best virus record by far and reached the new landmark on Thursday, even as the pathogen explodes anew in Europe and the U.S. Taiwan’s last local case came on April 12; there has been no second wave.
What did this island with 23 million people do right? It has had 550 confirmed cases, with only seven deaths. Experts say closing borders early and tightly regulating travel have gone a long way toward fighting the virus. ****Other factors include rigorous contact tracing, technology-enforced quarantine and universal mask-wearing. Further, Taiwan’s deadly experience with SARS has scared people into compliant." Until we are prepare to go the whole way, we stuck.
joeblow 4 years ago
... what they do is quarantine positive cases (not everybody) until they test negative. We have any number of facilities that could have been converted to quarantine centers (school gyms etc). Once a positive person is there for 14-21 days and tests negative, they can go back home. Simple. What our gov't did was ask people to SELF quarantine while they did not stay home and continued community spread!
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