By TANYA SMITH-CARTWRIGHT
tsmith-cartwright@tribunemedia.net
THE country recorded 62 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday and three new deaths.
According to the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard, 46 of those new cases are infections in New Providence, 16 are on Grand Bahama and the remaining one is in Cat Island. Fifteen of the COVID-19 cases reported by Grand Bahama were confirmed between November 2020 and early May. They have been incorporated in these newly confirmed cases.
Thirty-six women and 26 men make up the count for the 62 new cases.
The latest deaths are a 100-year-old woman, a 46-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman. The two women who died are from New Providence, the elder one dying on May 25 and the younger one on May 26. The man is from Andros and he died on May 25.
Out of the 62 who recently tested positive for the virus, only one has a history of travel within the past 14 days.
Forty-seven people are currently hospitalised at Princess Margaret Hospital, Doctors Hospital, South Beach Clinic and Grand Bahama Health Services. Four of them are currently in the intensive care unit at Doctors Hospital.
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Bahamas stand at 11,684 with deaths at 229.
Due to the high rates of COVID-19 on Cat Island and Andros, the competent authority has those islands on lockdown for the next two weeks.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, 10,593 people were fortunate enough to have recovered, 90 of them listed as the latest to have recovered on Wednesday.
So far, 96,400 COVID-19 tests have been administered locally – 400 completed recently with 62 positive results, 329 negative results, eight repeated and eight inconclusive.
Results of newly confirmed cases were reported within 24 to 48 hours after the swabbing date.
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TalRussell 2 years, 11 months ago
Was it just a big mistake or a lie by the Red Team was so confidently reassuring of the PopoulacesCommoners at large (PCAL), that the realm is healthy for reopening to cruise ship passengers by the thousands, that they'd teamed up together have retired the office of the prime minister's Official COVID-2021 Death Counter into permanent storage,** yes?
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
229/400,000=00.0005725 Covid related deaths in the Bahamas. Hospitalization for an infectious disease is being press megaphone by every bleating moment the sky is falling the sky is falling. 437 days gas stations still closes at 9pm not about fear of catching Covid but but cages of us dehumanized must only be set into a new normal world of body testing strange potentially dangerous new vaccinations. At first vaccines were to save the lives of the immuno vulnerable. WHO first declared lockdowns to save hospital space. WHO declared pandemic which shut humanity down. WHO morphed rubberband science can stretch to whatever it wishes as different caged humans seek freedom. Freedom to walk the road show Vax pass. Freedom to enter school Vax pass. Freedom to work Vax pass. Freedom to die, Vax positive pass, freedom to grocery shop Vax pass, freedom to renew anything Minnis Vax pass. Imagine the killer drone Covid Police, green lights flashing hunting down the unvaccinated for a penalty of death.
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