COVID-19 Update: One New Case BY BGIS | OCT 16, 2020 | CORONA VIRUS, TOP STORIES A 54-year-old Barbadian man was the only positive case of COVID-19 diagnosed today among 457 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. The man, who returned to Barbados on British Airways on October 11, tested positive after the second test. Meanwhile, no one […]
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Minister of Health and Wellness, Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic. ( Photo by David Crichlow ) Today we recorded five new cases of COVID-19, all visitors to the island who tested positive after retests. With the increase of flights into Barbados on a daily basis, especially from our major source markets, which are all now in […]
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Five visitors to the island have tested positive for COVID-19 after retests. Their results were among 426 returned by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory today. Meanwhile, five persons will be released from isolation today. The new cases are two men, aged 28 and 35, who arrived on British Airways on October 10 and 12 respectively; […]
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Minister of Education, Santia Bradshaw receives cheque for $10,000 from Director of Peloton International Ltd., Julian Jordan, towards the purchase of devices for use by students and teachers in online education. Looking on is Chief Education Officer (Ag), Joy Adamson. (E. Walker/MRD) Peloton International Ltd. has donated $10,000 to the Ministry of Education, Technological and […]
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Two visitors who arrived from the United Kingdom last week were positive for COVID-19 after being retested. Theirs were the only positive results among 435 returned by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory today and they have both been transferred to isolation. The 66-year-old man, who arrived on British Airways on October 7, is asymptomatic, […]
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Laboratory results from tests conducted on Friday, October 9, have revealed that an 81-year-old Barbadian man tested positive for COVID-19 after his second test. He arrived in Barbados on Sunday, October 4, on a British Airways flight, and went into quarantine as required for persons travelling from high risk countries. This now brings the tally […]
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A 62-year-old female visitor is the latest person to test positive for COVID-19 in Barbados. She arrived on a JetBlue flight from New York and went into mandatory quarantine as required by the COVID-19 travel protocols. The result of her second test was amongst the 475 conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory on […]
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Laboratory results from tests conducted on Monday, October 5, have shown that three women have tested positive for COVID-19 after their second tests. This brings the island’s total number of confirmed cases to 203. They are an asymptomatic 19-year-old Jamaican who arrived on a CAL flight on September 26; an asymptomatic 29-year-old Barbadian who arrived […]
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Pictured Acting Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Kenneth George during a recent Press briefing. Acting Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Kenneth George, has advised residents to remain calm in the wake of a COVID-19 cluster which includes two students at The Ellerslie School. The cluster is so far confined to members of one family. Dr. […]
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Cuba’s Ambassador to Barbados, Sergio Jorge Pastrana and Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM, David Comissiong, lay wreaths at the Cubana monument during yesterday’s commemoration ceremony in Payne’s Bay. (S. Pilé/BGIS) Repeated calls for the Caribbean to remain a Zone of Peace were made during the 44th commemoration of the Cubana Airlines tragedy, held yesterday, Tuesday, October […]
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