Health officials have announced that there are three new local COVID-19 cases, as well as two positive cases among travellers.
All three of the local cases are related to the outbreaks at George Town and Prospect Primary Schools.
Giving an update on the latest results, Chief Nursing Officer Dr. Hazel Brown said a student – from the same Year 6 group at Prospect Primary as those initially screened – was among the new cases. The other two cases were a Year 6 student and a parent from George Town Primary who tested positive at exit from quarantine.
The two positives among the travellers were also found during quarantine-exit tests.
George Town Primary is set to reopen on Monday, 4 Oct. It has been closed since it was reported on 14 Sept. that a Year 6 student had tested positive. All students, staff and parents at the school were quarantined for at least 14 days, as well as people who had been in the waiting room of the Flu Clinic with the initial positive student on the day the child was tested there.
After a Year 6 student at Prospect Primary tested positive on 28 Sept., that school was also closed, but reopened two days later. Classmates and teachers of that student, along with their households, were also quarantined for 14 days.
According to a statement issued Wednesday, schools will be moving to the mandatory health and safety protocols outlined in the Ministry of Education’s COVID-19 Guidance for Educational Institutions.
Vaccinations
As of 30 Sept., 73% of the estimated population of 71,106 were fully vaccinated, while 55,174 people (78%) had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Public Health is holding an additional vaccination clinic this evening at the West Bay Health Centre, between 5pm and 8pm, with people with surnames beginning A-H being seen from 5pm, surnames beginning I-N from 6pm and surnames beginning O-Z from 7pm.
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Case counts are largely irrelevant but to show the public that, when the majority of a population is vaccinated as is the case in the Cayman, covid is a Paper Tiger.
Deaths are all that matters (and please recall that people do in fact fall ill and die of diseases other than Covid, I know, easy to forget!).
Life goes on (in the rest of the world, not in the Cayman).
Deaths are not all that matters.
People who survive covid often end up with long covid.
This doesn’t just mean you won’t be able to run a marathon but have long term mental implications and a higher risk of dementia.