Nine individuals being held at the Customs and Border Control Service Detention Centre have been transferred to the Breakers Civic Centre for isolation after some were diagnosed with chickenpox.
According to a government statement released Sunday, Public Health has been monitoring the situation and are treating those in isolation.
“This situation created heightened tension last night with the other migrants at CBCDC, however, the tension has since eased and arrangements have been made for sanitization of the detention center to help prevent further spread of the virus,” the statement noted.
The Breakers Civic Centre is one of four civic centres listed in the government’s Mass Migration Contingency Plan as alternative accommodation.
Public Health stated that those who were transferred to Breakers Civic Centre will remain there until fully recovered.
Concerns relating to chickenpox have been heightened lately as symptoms of chickenpox can be similar to monkeypox.
On Wednesday, 1 June, Public Health sent a sample from a young patient in Cayman who had been diagnosed with chickenpox to a Caribbean Public Health Agency laboratory in Trinidad to determine if it could be monkeypox.
According to a statement from Public Health, “out of an abundance of caution”, a sample from the patient, who has rash and fever, will be investigated for monkeypox at the CARPHA lab.
Results are not expected for at least a week or two, health officials said.
Cases of monkeypox have been found in the US, Canada and European countries, where the virus is not endemic, in recent weeks.
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