90 new COVID-19 cases, five deaths and five deaths under investigation reported on Friday

As of Saturday, September 5, 2020

The Ministry of Health reported that there were 90 new COVID-19 cases, five additional deaths and five deaths under investigation on Friday.

The total number of cases now stands at 2,476 with 1,451 of those active.

The breakdown of the new cases is as follows: New Providence 63; Grand Bahama 14; Abaco 6; Inagua 2, Long Island 2; Eleuthera 1 and the locations of the remaining two cases are pending.

The five deaths were:

• a 58-year-old woman of Long Island who passed away on 28th August, 2020;

• A 71-year-old woman of New Providence who passed away on 14th August, 2020;

• A 54-year-old woman of New Providence who passed away on 20th August, 2020;

• A 67-year-old man of New Providence who passed away on 30th August, 2020; and

• A 20-year-old woman of New Providence who passed away on 26th August, 2020.

The death toll is now 55, with 15 deaths under investigation.

TalRussell 3 years, 7 months ago

College Professor Dies Teaching Online Class After Weekslong Battle With COVID-19 -

Warning do not watch with children and watch with uttermost caution.

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Location Pending? These 104 locations pending have to be visitors visiting the Bahamas and the authority doesn't want the citizens to know, because how can there be 104 citizens without any known location?

trueBahamian 3 years, 7 months ago

Agreed. If you moved from one island to the next, you know what island the person resides in. If you have a visitor to the Bahamas then it is very likely that they infected locals and those locals infected others.

I took the statement from the government that the cases seen were locals who travelled abroad. How.can we say with 100% certainty that what they said is true?

HarryWyckoff 3 years, 7 months ago

Nope.

I have it on good authority that it was simply clinics not providing proper paperwork with their test specimens, leaving the MoH with no idea who the specimens belonged to

The scary part is that those people are now walking around positive and have no idea, which will keep the virus spreading.

TalRussell 3 years, 7 months ago

Docente de la UADE falleció mientras daba una clase virtual y un alumno filmó el dramático momento -

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proudloudandfnm 3 years, 7 months ago

God I hope GB isn't trending up....

ThisIsOurs 3 years, 7 months ago

you know it was only 2 weeks ago that you said GB was trending down. But trends take a while to establish themselves.

My take, our border opening unleashed the Kracken. The cases they're reporting are most likely 1/10th of the actual infections. They're only counting people who self report and thise connected to them. Think of it, if someone works with an infected individual, is tested as a contact, comes up positive but went to the foodstore on double stamps day and Kelly's on mall wide sale day, who's going to send out a call for everyone who was in the foodstore to self quarantine? They messed this up royally by rushing the border opening

tribanon 3 years, 7 months ago

The Bahamian people should banish Minnis and D'Aguilar from The Bahamas, forevermore!

tribanon 3 years, 7 months ago

Sadly it's going to get a whole lot worse. And all because of Minnis and D'Aguilar's most stupid and foolish decision to prematurely reopen our borders on July 1, thereby enabling the deadly Communist China Virus to return to our shores with a vengeance.

These two incompetent and dangerous buffoons ignored all of the flashing warning lights in the US at the time, especially in Florida. They squandered the golden opportunity we had of controlling the situation after having successfully flattened the curve. They took away our ability to at least reopen our domestic economy while keeping our borders closed to all travellers from abroad.

As a result of the ensuing yo-yo lockdowns and numerous irrational orders/protocols, many small and medium size businesses have been literally forced by government to go out of business, never to reopen again. Too many Bahamians are now without a job, without food, and even without hope.

Shelly22 3 years, 7 months ago

It wasn't the Prime minister fault he specifically told Bahamians not to travel but did y'all listen now y'all blame him

ThisIsOurs 3 years, 7 months ago

Yeah, and Pontius Pilate washed his hands and said I dont see nothing wrong with this Jesus but if that's what y'all want do, I gat nuttin to do with it. But he did. He allowed it to happen. Just like Minnis.

Minnis must stand as a "leader" and shoulder his share of the blame. He opened the border when it was completely unwise to do so. He rushed the opening. No border opsning, no govt owned Bahanasair Miami special, no rush of 4000 Bahamians and 2000 tourists across the border

TalRussell 3 years, 7 months ago

As more jobs pulled from under them as businesses decide to further delay reopening and to throw in the towel although t's goin' be pretty damn hard to keep spinning like all is financially rosy.... yet not single House-elected MP, or senator, along with the politically appointed has volunteered to cut or forgo their paycheques, park their government cars - sending home their chauffers whilst refusing to enjoy fringe benefits others can only dream of. Not a single individual on the PopoulacesPruse has been sent home.
I've been sounding warning since August 1 to keep an eye focused on Abaco and to expect 100+ viruses infected by the second week of September. A nod of Once for Yeah, Twice for No?

It's never to late to update our data into a format of this type.

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