By EARYEL BOWLEG
Tribune Staff Reporter
ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
THE MINISTRY of Health and Wellness revealed it has has observed recently an uptick in the number of persons testing positive for influenza-like illnesses (ILI) including COVID-19.
In a press release on Friday, health officials urged the public to continue to be vigilant amid the uptick.
“This is not unexpected due to seasonality of these types of infections, known in some parts as 'summer colds'," the statement read.
"As such, it is essential to continue practicing good hand hygiene, wearing masks, maintaining physical distance, getting tested and vaccinated. These practices can significantly reduce transmission rates of infectious diseases as we continue to live with COVID-19 and be on the lookout for new viruses.”
The ministry added there are a number of other viruses that are causing ILls globally.
The press release assured that the National Communicable Diseases Surveillance Unit remains vigilant and continues to monitor the situation both locally and globally.
On January 7, the ministry advised of an uptick in the number of COVID-19 positive cases COVID-19 being reported on New Providence and Grand Bahama.
At that time, the ministry reported 36 cases had been reported in the past six weeks, with 26 of them reported in the month of December. Grand Bahama had recorded 11 new cases within the past two weeks, and a man had also reportedly died from COVID-19 on that island.
In New Providence, two persons are hospitalized in January after testing positive for the virus. However, officials said those cases did not require intensive care management.
Comments
ThisIsOurs 4 months, 3 weeks ago
This is weird, they report an uptick, give a full breakdown of another uptick 6 months ago with numbers, spread and severity but not a single detail about the current uptick. This is all of course after some "crazy" person already called a talk show earlier this week to warn us that COVID cases were up.
Here we go again, the tourist dollar and the economy are more important than Bahamians who cant breathe and who drinking and bathing in oil and gas
Can we get a report of the number and location and cleanup effort on gas station leaks since 1970?
bahamianson 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Who cares, move on. The rest of the world has.
ThisIsOurs 4 months, 3 weeks ago
COVID was never a disease that everybody got. One of my questions for years has been with only 0.05% of the population appearinh to get severe symptoms, what puts you in the 0.05%? I'm assuming that the number of cases are low and the severity is not that great.
At the same time I know persons who've had the severe symptoms and I for one dont want to find out if I'm in the 0.05%. The symptoms are not pleasant, they're extremely painful and they can last years.. in some people
I like eating without pain
trueBahamian 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Why is this information from December and January? What are the latest stats? Who is the genius at the Ministry of Health responsible for this information? Every step we have to show we're a backwards banana republic.
GodSpeed 4 months, 3 weeks ago
still pushing those clot shots?
ThisIsOurs 4 months, 3 weeks ago
COVID itself causes blood clots and a host of other debilitating weird issues due to its ability to damage blood vessels anywhere in the body (this includes the all important body part specific to the male anatomy, imagine that. Noone should want to catch this to find out if they're in the unlucky few or to prove it's a hoax for that matter). And no, I also dont believe in universal vaccination aka the 0.05%
ExposedU2C 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I really feel sorry for the many sheep who are currently suffering from (or will later suffer from) the now exposed and well documented harmful side-effects of the experimental vaccines. especially the young lambs (children) who should never have been jabbed.
Evil governments and globalist health care bureaucrats beholden to big pharma and the sinister billionaire oligarchs have yet to be held fully accountable for the role they played in betraying the people, ignoring the science known at the time, and silencing the voices of so many much more qualified, decent, and respectable scientists and medical doctors.
FreeportFreddy 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I love your tinfoil hat!
I thought that all the vaccinated were doing to die in one month...then one year...then...
And you even worked in 'ignoring science'.
Truly mind boggling stupidity!!
ExposedU2C 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The "tinfoil hat" line is now about as worn out and ineffective as can be given all the previously suppressed science now known and findings from new research studies over the last couple of years. You almost sound proud of the limited immunity and ill-effects of the experimental mRNA vaccines. I suspect you don't even have any serious misgivings about the harmful effects the maskings, school closures, etc. had on young children around the world.
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