Just over two hundred persons arrived at Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados yesterday aboard a British Airways aircraft. About half of them went on to other Caribbean destinations, primarily St Lucia and St Vincent.
Ninety eight persons who were swabbed at Paragon, Christ Church, were immediately placed in quarantine, which will last 14 days.
Forty-nine were admitted to Paragon, eight to the St Lucy District Hospital, seven were given permission to home quarantine while the others were quarantined at local hotels at their own expense
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