818 new cases of COVID-19

As of Sunday, January 9, 2022

The Ministry of Health and Wellness reported 818 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday – a record number of cases for a single day in The Bahamas.

Of the new cases, 734 were in New Providence, 15 in Grand Bahama, 13 in Abaco, two in Eleuthera, four in the Berry Islands, 21 in Exuma, 15 in Inagua, three in Andros, two in Long Island, three in Cat Island, one in Ragged Island and the location of five other cases is pending.

Ninety-eight people in total are in hospital with seven of those in intensive care.

juju 2 years, 3 months ago

Hmm… this does not seem accurate for the Abaco numbers…. Imformation is definitely incorrect. Why report such nonsense.?

rosiepi 2 years, 3 months ago

The Abaco numbers have never been correct as the MOH doesn't count any results from antigen tests.

tribanon 2 years, 3 months ago

They could find many thousands more infected if they did more testing, but what's the point of doing so. Testing certainly doesn't make anyone any better. And besides, setting aside those who may be deathly ill for whatever reason, not even the most vulnerable among us in terms of old age, obesity and other pre-existing conditions really want to risk catching the Communist Red China Virus or one of its variants by going to a hospital or health clinic.

We need to get all the public schools fully open for classroom learning and teachers and education administrators who do not support doing so should be told to look for another job.

ohdrap4 2 years, 3 months ago

The public school teachers have it good. No salary reduction. They even throw fits because they want computers and ppe provided to them and when required to come to campus, want to work from home. They will find passive aggressive ways to block the return. Private school teachers had reduced earnings. Double the work, as now they have to prepare 2 lessons for each of their classes. Many were fired or worked for no pay.

I suspect tho, that the real reason for the delay in opening is that the schools are in a state of dereliction.

SP 2 years, 3 months ago

A record number of cases for a single day in The Bahamas. 818 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and we still have Jan 10th holiday that will unquestionably turn out as a super spreader date for the country.

My prediction is by Jan 30th the Bahamas will have 1000 new cases daily and the hospital will be over-run with covid infected patients.

The proof is undeniably in the pudding, the "New Day" government made a major blunder by removing too many restrictions way too fast resulting in our current mess which has also not gone unnoticed by the CDC.

Now they need to think out of the box and move fast to find new ways of containing the wildfire virus outbreak especially with essential workers BEFORE the next deadly variant is manifested, which would overwhelm and possibly collapse the already strained health care system and lead to an uncontrolled shut down of the tourism sector.

The cruise and airline industries are already quickly grinding to a halt with thousands of staff unable to work due to covid infections, leading to unprecedented numbers of cancellations and millions of travelers already stranded around the world.

If a solution is not found FAST, the entire travel industry will collapse leaving tourist-dependent economies like the Bahamas and Caribbean "dead in the water" again! Billions of dollars would be lost in record time, unemployment would soar, and crime would be off the charts as more and more already desperate people fall below the poverty line and are forced into a life of crime for survival.

Given the history of government "thinking out of the box" and "moving quickly", the immediate future does NOT look promising.

ThisIsOurs 2 years, 3 months ago

Cue Def Leppard

"Ninety-eight people in total are in hospital with seven of those in intensive care.

There were 80+ in hospital on Friday, half of which Dr Forbes said were in for other reasons. Like "Im having a baby", and tested positive

It does NOBODY any good to report this half cocked data for dramatics. Report data that actually gives an accurate picture of the current situation. Who are these people? What's the average length of stay? Whats the time between first symptoms and reporting to hospital? Is anyone in danger of long term complications? How many? So far this says to me is, noone's dying but alot of people are not available to work.

90% hotel occupancy = The horse is out the gate, there is literally nothing you can do to stop Omicron, its simply to contagious, and vaccinations wont work and boosters won't work. The only strategy you can employ now that slowing its entry into the country is a failure is slowing it down locally so that 300,000 people arent infected in one day

stillwaters 2 years, 3 months ago

Dr Diggiss just announced that Doctors Hospital did about roughly 90, 000 covid tests in December.....of which, about 75,000 were rapid antigen tests that are never represented on the dashboard. So, if 40% of those rapid tests were positive, those people were loose in Nassau, not on the dashboard, not accountable, and no contact tracing for them. Diggiss should, in some way, make known to the public the results of the rapid tests, but I guess the focus is more on moneymaking right now. The free government rapid antigen tests will also not be in the dashboard....far too many positive people are flying below the covid dashboard radar.

ThisIsOurs 2 years, 3 months ago

Again misleading data. Very misleading.

Most people will assume that he meant 90k people were tested. With hotels, food stores, hospitals and other "in person" businesses requiring employees be tested once per week, added to persons testing positive with RAT and having to retest with PCR, added to persons in quarantine retesting to get out of quarantine, "90k tests" doesnt tell you very much.... other than how much money was made..

whogothere 2 years, 3 months ago

The purpose of testing now is ultimately early treatment. If you are immune compromised or have underlying conditions or are elderly if you are exposed or symptomatic an early diagnostic is potentially a life saver.

If you are young healthy, mild symptoms, testing is a waste of resources. Just do you what you did in the old days. Go home take some Tylenol.

Cases don’t matter, omicron makes them irrelevant we have got to move from national medical protocols to personal health decisions. encouragement not coercion. Otherwise the insanity and over reach of governments will not end..

carltonr61 2 years, 3 months ago

Very very misleading lack of any knowledge of science and data or they just out to implement another costly wave of fear and medical profiteering.

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