Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has tested positive for Covid-19, but claims that he is “doing fine” with very mild symptoms of the virus.
Browne said on his weekly program on Saturday night that he tested positive on Friday and tested positive again on Saturday.
The prime minister who received his first Covid-19 vaccine approximately two years ago and was boosted over a year later, suspects that he may have contracted the virus during his recent business trips.
“Within the last week, I was over in Barbuda hosting a few Europeans, nine of them, then I travelled to the Bahamas, subsequently I traveled to Miami and then back home. The job is such that I am always exposed…” he said
Browne also identified two other places in which he could have contracted the virus.
“Perhaps my exposure would have come at a restaurant, if not in Barbuda but in Miami, when I removed my mask to eat,” he said.
Although Covid is a deadly disease and a major threat to anyone who gets infected, Browne believes that he could be cleared in a “matter of days”, based on his symptoms.
“I am in good health other than these little congestions; my oxygen levels are fine. I am feeling well. I have no loss of appetite or taste. I don’t have a headache, no fever. I feel just as strong,” he said
The prime minister received the Moderna jab vaccine weeks before it was available for public use on island, a decision that he was widely criticized for.
Contact tracing is underway, according to PM Browne, while his close contacts including his immediate family members, have so far tested negative.
Browne said he will work remotely from home until he receives the all clear.
At this point in the pandemic, I hardly think anyone, including the leader of a country being infected with the covid virus as being newsworthy. This virus is all over tye globe and world leaders are just as vulnerable as any other human being. The virus does not care about your station in life.
To me that story is as newsworthy as saying Gaston Browne has the common cold. Not that I am equating that virus with the cold virus, but with a mild infection, I don’t know that the story should make the news. It would have been newsworthy of he had died from the virus.
And as a matter of fact, it’s like a bullet with no individual name engraved on it. Boy, it not only a dozen people I know got that virus, some were lucky to survive.
Nevertheless, many who survived are left with permanent disabilities, which includes neurological problems. My older sister got it survived the virus, in Dominica, but, the side-effects killed her shortly after she left the hospital.
My younger daughter never sick in her twenty something year of living, almost die from it, more than six months ago, now she has develop a heart condition, neurologically she has to learn how to walk again.
So, my older daughter is one who claimed black people don’t get the virus; and that’s according to their Muslim philosophy, until she and her three children got it; but God is so merciful, even the medication the doctor gave to them they refused to take it, she made a medication with something from the sea. (I know but I doh talking) claimed that cured them!
Maybe cause they are…
DNI: You do realise that Barbuda is not a country, neither is Miami. Do you?
ADMIN: Thank you. The article was corrected.
Anon, what would it take for Barbuda to be recognized as a country!
Barbuda, is about 60.1 or there about square miles I believe, it is a small island surrounded by water, a dependency of Antigua.
In the event the island people, native, not the Chines Gaston have sold more than half the island to decide they want their independence, shouldn’t be a country?
Barbuda is 61- 62 square miles with a population of just about 1,700 people.
Montserrat is 39.38 square miles, a British colony: Is Montserrat a country?
Barbuda is unofficially a country!
And that is my humble opinion!
Cont:
If Barbuda is not a country; then Liechtenstein cant be a country either!
Liechtenstein , officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (German: Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a German-speaking microstate located in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland. Liechtenstein is a constitutional monarchy headed by the Prince of Liechtenstein.
Liechtenstein is bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and Austria to the east and north. It has an area of just over 160 square kilometres (62 square miles), the fourth smallest country in Europe and has a population of 37,877.
The variance between that country and Barbuda, is its population!
So what? Thought I saw he got arrested man. I was going out boy next
Two years ago DNO? ???COVID had just come on the scene and there was no covid 19 vaccine as yet. I wonder if Antigua had manufactured their own vaccine before anyone else.
But what is dis. WHYYYYY are people still calling something which obviously does not grant immunity/prevent infection a vaccine?
Why is this level of high grade deception still ongoing?
Is today’s so-called ‘modern progressive’ society the most dotish & gullible society ever to reside on planet Earth?
So what? Is this news DNO? Being positive is not an issue. Covid was never an issue as it was 99.97% recovery with a slight decrease for elderlies. The covid conspiracy was for persons to get vaccinated. For the Investors / Big Pharm to make their millions. The news should be how many persons passed because of these vaccines, especially Pfizer. Remember the UK has said that 9 out of 10 deaths were vaccinated individuals.
The mask mandate needs to be removed because this can cause ‘hypoxia”
What is hypoxemia? Having just the right amount of oxygen in your blood is important. Too little oxygen and too much oxygen are both harmful to your health. Therefore, your body controls and regulates the amount of oxygen in your blood at all times. When your body is unable to do this, and the level of oxygen in your blood drops too low, the condition is called hypoxemia. DNO please educate the persons who want to wear masks 24 hrs. Are we now looking for a real pandemic? The last one was…
I wonder if all you would sing a difference tune if some of your loved ones had died from this dreadful virus. I have friends who died from Covid prior to the vaccine being made available. Please tell me it is fake news that millions of people have died from this disease all over the world.
I wonder if any of these Caribbean/African leaders will face justice for the COVID crimes they have (and continue to) comit against their own people?
They know what they doing, they are aware of the Pfiezer report that shows extreme adverse reactions/death from a high percentage of those who took the poison, they know about the research/data/statistics of people all over the world getting strokes/heart problems, they know about all the still births/period cycle issues, they know about the AIDS concerns in the vaxxed, they know that majority of deaths are vaxxed, they ignored the deaths spikes that started with the vaccine roll out, they know everything – but they still pushing it. Literally selling their people for outside interests.
Forget white racism, Black leaders are black people’s biggest problem! they are all sell outs
When you make these statements please make sure to put your qualifications beside your name. Unless you are an expert in the area of medicine, virology, vaccinology or some have some similar expertise, don’t try to pass your opinion as fact.
Gaston i am wishing you a speedy recovery. Kama is a B. What about Chucksie the guy you wanted to deport from your country is he still in Antigua ? or you waiting for skerrit to build the airport so u all can do it at midnight, big brother is watching. By the way did you pay the guy already ? You know whom.