St Vincent and the Grenadines has registered its first case of coronavirus COVID-19.
Minister for Health, Luke Browne, made the announcement at a news conference last night.
The minister said the person, a female who had travelled to the United Kingdom, experienced flu-like symptoms and tests were sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency in Trinidad and Tobago.
The tests were confirmed and the results returned to St Vincent and the Grenadines Wednesday afternoon.
According to health officials in St. Vincent, the woman who’s between the age of 30 and 35, has been placed in isolation.
They say she’s not experiencing any major respiratory symptoms and it is believed that she has only a mild infection.
She travelled to the UK for a meeting and returned to the UK on March 7. She presented the symptoms, a cough and a fever on March 10.
The news came after Jamaica announced it’s second confirmed case of the virus, which has been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation.
Meanwhile, a 52-year-old woman, who recent travelled from Queens, New York, died in Guyana Wednesday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) and the authorities say that samples are being tested to determine whether this could have been a case of the coronavirus.
Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence confirmed the woman’s death and maintained that Guyana does not have any cases of the virus.
we are ready for this virus. we have the capability to test. Hon Minister of Health says 90% equipped. All nurses and doctors on stand by. Plus we have the cubans on stand bye. All retired nurses will come back to work. Dominica is ready ready. we dont want the virus. But we are ready.
I doe hear Skerrit traveling to Guyana nuh
So it is confirmed in Dominican Republic, Jamaica, St. Martin, Martinique etc. But the million dollar question is, how are doing in Dominica? Are we a ok or, is it that the virus is here but we have no tests or, the authorities scared of testing for fear that if anyone is tested positive we have nothing in place to help the individual and, for scare that it might cause national panic? Dominica has more Chinese coming in and going out since January and I have a hard time believing the COVID-19 is not on our shores. I guess they waiting until we hear on DBS he or she has left the mourn….