The Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that there are nine new cases of COVID-19.
The new cases are:
• A 30-year-old woman of Grand Bahama with no history of travel who is in isolation at home.
• A 55-year-old man of New Providence with no history of travel who is in hospital.
• A 47-year-old man of Grand Bahama with no history of travel who is in isolation at home.
• A 47-year-old woman of Grand Bahama with no history of travel who is in isolation at home.
• A 54-year-old woman of Grand Bahama with no history of travel who is in isolation at home.
• A 36-year-old woman of Grand Bahama with no history of travel who is in isolation at home.
• A 53-year-old man of New Providence with a history of travel who is in isolation at home.
• A 45-year-old man of Grand Bahama with a history of travel who is in hospital.
• A 42-year-old man of Grand Bahama. Travel details are pending.
The total number of cases now stands at 138 with 34 of those active.
Health officials are reminding the public to practice the following measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
• Wear a face mask when you leave home;
• Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, and if soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 70% alcohol;
• Cover your cough or sneeze in your inner elbow or with a tissue; and
• Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces such as phones, remotes controls, counters, doorknobs, and keyboards.
Comments
ThisIsOurs 3 years, 9 months ago
would be interesting if they sampled the tourists on the flights with these people. The narrative so far has been bad Bahamians travelling abroad...but what if they contracted the virus on the return flight from an infected tourist?...one of those who forged their health certificate or climbed the fence when authorized by Inspector Smith.
TalRussell 3 years, 9 months ago
Living in today's Grand Bahamaland under the rule of the red coats Mr. Minnis and KP's Central Authority is to have their two Knee pressing against your Neck each wakin' morning. Ma comrades, can I have a thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
DDK 3 years, 9 months ago
One way or another, open borders mean virus mayhem on Bahamians....
DDK 3 years, 9 months ago
Love the comments of reassurance from the PM and his minions 😂🤣😂
My2Cents 3 years, 9 months ago
How many of the recent cases in Grand Bahama related? Sounds like a super spreader, local or tourist. In any event, it still doesn’t justify closing the borders. Perhaps some tightening of restrictions is down the line for GB. Other than that, I see no cause for alarm. We knew what we were getting into and had no choice but to reopen.
proudloudandfnm 3 years, 9 months ago
Reopen for what? A couple of tourists? We will not see any economic benefit from opening our borders during a pandemic. Come on man. Its hard to get more common sense than that. Who the hell wants to go on a vacation during a pandemic? How dumb would you have to be?
tribanon 3 years, 9 months ago
You're so right but some of these idiots will just never get it because, like Minnis, they don't have an ounce of common sense.
ISpeakFacts 3 years, 9 months ago
Does anyone know if Minnis's brain will be returning from the repair shop anytime soon? If I can recall, he has his national dictator address tomorrow at 5pm! Lord knows that Dictator Minnis will be running and dodging the questions regarding Dr. Sands!!!
tribanon 3 years, 9 months ago
Rumour has it Minnis is only now instigating the ramping up of testing to find new cases as the basis (justification) for another round of his ridiculous executive orders rather than simply closing our borders to all travellers from the US. He and D'Aguilar must stop travellers from the US coming into the Bahamas, including those Bahamians who have been stupid enough to travel to the US in the midst of a major resurgence of Covid-19 community spread in most states of the US, especially Florida. By foolishly and wrongfully keeping our borders open to travellers from the US, Minnis and D'Aguilar are putting our healthcare system at risk of being overwhelmed by Covid-19 hospitalizations and are jeopardizing the lives of the vulnerable in our society, including all of our healthcare workers. How can our PM, who is also our minister of health, be so downright foolish, stubborn and evil?!
Economist 3 years, 9 months ago
I nam informed that the contract tracing is nearly non existant. They had a government employee who is a receptioist at government department and they haven't contacted any businesses that use it.
Think of all the persons who were exposed and could have been tested (sorry government waits till people get sick to test) and who could now be spreading COVID-19.
Dahl Regis too busy saving money and not testing.
Bring Sands back.
joeblow 3 years, 9 months ago
... I'm sorry but Sands is not the answer. Apart from better communication , he was a failure as well. Not only is contact tracing a laugh, but tracking infected, self isolated persons is a joke as well!
Anyone with an ounce of common sense who can receive data, organize it and make a decision can do a better job than Sands or Minnis. They are lifetime civil servants in health who have no regard for healthcare in this country! Educated people are running this country and failing. We need more people with common sense!
proudloudandfnm 3 years, 9 months ago
This is just stupid.
Close the borders now before its too late. Not one hospital bed available in Florida. Death rates climbing, toddlers getting infected now.
CLOSE THE BORDERS NOW....
tribanon 3 years, 9 months ago
Minnis has become a tyrannical dictator and madman, period!
ted4bz 3 years, 9 months ago
Shut down if you’re going to shut down, or shut up with all this fake nonsense.
proudloudandfnm 3 years, 9 months ago
What's fake?
VDSheep 3 years, 9 months ago
We are more vunerable to the virus - when a visitors get a negative certificate to visit ' they have five days to enter the Bahamas - however ' within that five days they can become infected and still enter the Bahamas with a negative report - we will see our cases escalating as we continue!
tribanon 3 years, 9 months ago
All of these cases since Minnis and D'Aguilar foolishly re-opened our country to travellers from the US are persons who were either infected by recent travellers from the US or persons who recently travelled to the US and got infected there. For a few tourist dollars, Minnis and D'Aguilar have exposed the vulnerable in our society and our healthcare workers to the deadliest pandemic mankind has been exposed to since 1918.
proudloudandfnm 3 years, 9 months ago
Most with no history of travel. Great back to community spread. Thanks minnis...
TalRussell 3 years, 9 months ago
Oh, c'mon crown ministers, how to suggest that even during times when a staggering half billion-plus paycheques are set to be globally lost just in the 2020/2021 years, such an outlandish 2020/2021 visitor arrivals and economic optimism being peddled around by The Colony's Central Authority's tourism and finance crown ministers Comrades Dioniso James and KP are much flawed.
With just he Americans fearing for their very lives, or those multiple millions who cannot afford to travel during the limited specified 2020/2021 tourism periods, then what happens with your rich with US dollar ka-ching predictions? Nod Once for Yeah, Twice for No?
TalRussell 3 years, 9 months ago
Odds have turned to favour the recent former health officer comrade sister as the new health minister but I'm sticking with either comrade PLP Renward, or King's Counsel Caril Wilshire.
ThisIsOurs 3 years, 9 months ago
this is almost unbelievable. Who didn't know this would happen? Why open to close down again as if it's our fault and act surprised?
ThisIsOurs 3 years, 9 months ago
not saying that we shouldn't have opened or shouldn't close in face of a spread, but why couldn't independent thinkers in cabinet together say, like everyone in the country was saying, this jul 1 opening is rushed? We don't have the scientific evidence that we've done everything that was necessary to reopen.
The results speak for themselves.
and now we have a Yes Man as health minister
tribanon 3 years, 9 months ago
Florida was well into the throes of out-of-control community spread of Covid-19 a couple of weeks after it began re-opening sectors of its economy and well before early July rolled around. The writing was on the wall plain as day for all to see and for foolish Minnis and D'Aguilar to simply ignore.
SP 3 years, 9 months ago
Opening our borders to the USA was an easily avoidable colossal blunder, especially with Canada and the EU examples of keeping theirs closed, and even New York had mandatory quarantine rules for Floridians.
This self inflicted "second wave" will be much larger than the first simpley due to the fact the origin is much more highly contaminated resulting in higher volume of transfers per capita By infectious carriers, which also translates to the much higher community spread we see already.
We are most likely headed back into lockdown by mid August. A lot of people are going to suffer all over again even worse this round, and for what, a few tourism dollars?
Experimenting with opening to the U.S. was a bad call, and undoubtedly will be much more expensive than it could ever have been worth!
truetruebahamian 3 years, 9 months ago
Even Mexico stopped U.S. visitors in to the Mexican beaches so that they could protect themselves against those who consider themselves so priveleged that rules don't apply to them
SP 3 years, 9 months ago
That's another problem, Americans could be seen walking about the island without masks everywhere. In fact, I have yet to see one wearing a mask!
If they wouldn't wear masks in the U.S., why would we think they would wear masks in what they consider to be a lowly banana republic?
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