THE Ministry of Health reported 52 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
Forty-five of the cases are in New Providence, two are in Grand Bahama, one is in Abaco, one is in the Berry Islands, one is in Andros and two cases are listed as locations pending.
Up to press time, the COVID-19 case count stood at 10,711. Fifty-two people are in hospital with the virus.
Yesterday the Ministry of Health said it was aware of a message circulating on social media purporting to be an urgent and important request for persons vaccinated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in The Bahamas.
“The message appealed to persons experiencing COVID-like symptoms for more than three days to share personal details and information about the vaccine administered,” the ministry said in a statement.
“The general public is advised that this message did not originate with the Surveillance Unit of the Ministry of Health, and hence, is not an approved communication.
“Consequently, the Ministry of Health strongly advises the public to seek information from reliable sources such as the Ministry of Health, the Office of the Prime Minister, the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization, and to guard against receiving and/or sharing misinformation about COVID-19 and the vaccine.”
Currently, all Bahamian citizens and permanent residents 18 years of age and over remain eligible to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Comments
JokeyJack 3 years ago
Meanwhile, the entire world is suffering from its first case of "unquestionable science" in over a century. It is very widespread.
DDK 3 years ago
Tribune, have you not flogged this story to death at this point??: Do the emergency powers say it MUST be seen in print every day?
ohdrap4 3 years ago
And the other half of the page is about migrants and shantytowns.
John 3 years ago
The US is basically pulling out all the stops claiming the Covid-19 pandemic to be ‘basically ended.’ The president himself, Joe Biden, claims Americans will see life return to normalcy by Independence, July 4th., ‘especially if everyone continues to take the vaccine.’ It was Philadelphia that had an early celebration in the form of a parade during the 1918 pandemic that caused additional thousands of people to become infected. And as for Bahamians, you know we is like come out in ‘da eye of the storm’ and go ‘a wandering.’ Keep ya masks on, continue to sanitize and social distance. Just a few weeks more jred!
ThisIsOurs 3 years ago
"Restrictions to curb the spread of covid-19 have been reintroduced in the Seychelles due to rising cases, despite over 60 per cent of the population having been fully vaccinated. There are about 1000 active cases in the Indian Ocean archipelago, which has a population of 100,000. A third of the cases involve people who have had two vaccine doses" newscientist.com
This is really daunting news. Essentially 300 persons who've received 2 doses are currently infected. They need more data. Are those persons seriously ill and how were so many of them infected? We were led to believe that infections among vaccinated persons was a rarity.
If 60% of the population is vacinated that works out to approximately 60,000 people vaccinated. The story implies that not all of them have received 2 doses which makes the double dose vaccination infection rate even higher. but even at 60000, 300 out of 60000 is a very high failure rate. Can they determine if any of these vaccinated persons were the cause of other people getting infected?
Meanwhile this govt that refuses to listen, is saying vaccinated tourists can travel here with no test, roam about without masks and mingle as they chose. How many seriously unwise decisions will they make on this virus under the we've never dine this before mantra? Its not like people havent highlighted the possible risks.
ohdrap4 3 years ago
I think many if the unvaccinated in the Seychelles are under 18s.
I think the fully vaccinated will become super spreaders when they acquire Covid. They will also be some kind of incubator of new variants.
The vaccine could only work for the strains it was created for. That us why they have new flu vaccines every year.
If Covid has multiple variants in a few weeks, vaccines will become obsolete at the same rate.
By the time 2 weeks after your full vaccination comes in, your license to drop the mask will have expired.
I am incredulous that doctor just regurgitate what is fed to them. Or maybe they only allow such parrots to make announcements to the public.
The doctor who shared his adverse vaccine reaction has been absent from news reports ever since.
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