There has been a 12th death from COVID-19, Public Health officials noted on Thursday.
No further details were provided regarding this person’s age or vaccination status.
It comes as hospitalisations remain low, with just five COVID-19 patients hospitalised at time of reporting, one more than last reported on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, an update from the Ministry of Health and Wellness revealed there are now 284 probable Omicron cases in Cayman, in addition to 44 confirmed cases of the recently-identified strain. The number of probable cases is 86 higher than reported on Wednesday.
A case is ‘probable’ when the results of PCR testing indicate the Omicron variant, by virtue of S-gene dropout which other variants like Delta do not have, but only becomes ‘confirmed’ once the sample has been processed through genome sequencing.
Interim Chief Medical Officer Dr. Autilia Newton reported 68 new cases of COVID-19 in total on Thursday, all from the community. These positives come from 421 PCR tests conducted in total, since the last report.
The results left the number of active cases of COVID-19 in the Cayman Islands at 3,695. The total number of cases recorded since the start of the pandemic stood at 8,943 at the same time.
The total number of people in isolation linked solely to community transmission was 3,550.
The Public Health Department also confirmed that there have been 2,461 total positive lateral flow tests, since the introduction of the lateral flow test programme.
There were five new cases found in the Sister Islands. To date, there have been 135 total cases recorded in the Sister Islands, with 120 having recovered. Out of the total number of cases in the Sister Islands, 74 were fully vaccinated, six were partially vaccinated, and 55 were unvaccinated.
Vaccination clinics reopened on Wednesday, but no further updates regarding these figures have been provided since Christmas Eve.
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Why the secrecy on deaths, the public need to know if any of the deaths were due to Covid as the primary cause, as opposed to what we can assume is the case with most of them where patients had comorbidities which were the primary cause of death.
Is this the 12th death “from Covid” as the article states? People dying “from Covid” is far different than dying “with Covid”. Words matter and so does responsible journalism.
Why do the health authorities refuse to state whether the recent deaths and persons in hospital were vaccinated or not?
If other countries are any guide some 90% of the deaths were unvaccinated.
This is incredibly important information to know.
I plan on coming to Grand Cayman on January 9th. Are there any plans to close the island due to COVID?
Was the main endpoint in this pandemic to encourage all people to get vaccinated to prevent severe disease?
Or is the objective to have NO positive PCR results.
This virus is clearly not going away.
If you are fully vaccinated and have no symptoms- carry on with life…
If you are high-risk,unvaccinated or vaccinated, these vulnerable individuals should be cautious and isolate themselves from high risk areas.
Where are our world healthcare leaders in explaining the virulence of this weak COVID strain and helping to foster a realistic approach to protecting the vulnerable persons and not the low risk, fully vaccinated persons with no symptoms,
This is never going to end otherwise.
In my country, fully vaccinated healthcare workers who test positive but are asymptomatic are asked to attend work and not isolate…..
What does tell us about vaccine effacy?- the message I take home from this is that the vaccines prevent severe disease not eliminating transmission altogether!
Those positive results will forever be out there…….if you go looking for them.
Everyone needs to be vaccinated and if chose not to be then you are considered high risk and by now, surely understand the consequences that we are all suffering because of you!
This system is cracking!