Covid 19 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines: stage 2
Update 3rd May: A 17th person has tested positive, and one person confirmed recovered, bringing the total number of active cases to 8. Number 17 is part of the same cluster.
Update 29th April: A 16th person has tested positive, this one too is closely associated with the last cluster. Contact tracing has been done I suppose, the number of persons in quarantine has increased to 100.
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A 15th person has been tested positive, this one too is closely associated with case 13 and 14 who got it from an imported case.
3 more persons have recovered as confirmed by 2 negative tests, bringing the total number of active cases to 7.
Update 23rd April
A 14th case has been confirmed, this one "closely associated" with case 13. At least 5 other persons are closely associated with this last case, extensive contact tracing is being done to determine if there is now community spreading of the virus.
Several tests have been done for medical clearance of patients, two more are recovered. The total recovered is now 5, active cases 9.
Update April 21st
This last person that tested positive has no recent travel history. The ministry of health now calls this a local transmission, meaning the person has been in direct contact with a patient with a travel history. As per the CDC: This is the stage of local transmission - when people who have brought the virus into the country transmit it to people they come in contact with, usually friends and family. At this stage, it is easy to trace spread and quarantine people.
This is different from community spread, where none of the infected patients have been in contact with an infected person that has a travel history. That would be stage 3.
April 21st
Today one more person has tested positive for the novel corona virus bringing the total of cases to 13. 2 of the active cases have been tested twice, result negative, and hence received medical clearance.
This brings the total active cases to 10.
It is unclear if this new positive is caused by local transmission or concerns a person who has travelled.
