Prime Minister Gaston Browne is praising the nation’s front-line workers who he said are the real heroes in stemming the spread of COVID-19 in Antigua and Barbuda.
“We have been successful in containing COVID and the health challenges that we anticipated did not quite materialize,” the prime minister said Saturday on Pointe FM’s Browne and Browne Show.
“We thought that our health system would have been overwhelmed and that is why we would have moved pretty quickly in order to strengthen the health infrastructure in the country, which means we are in a better position now to address any second wave of COVID.
“We also have the added experience in terms of protocols that we need to follow in order to contain the disease,” the prime minister added.
He said even though Antigua and Barbuda held out for several weeks before closing its border, no one could argue that the risk would have increased significantly.
“Today we are no worse than any country in the Caribbean in the sense that we are now in the position practically to announce that Antigua and Barbuda is now COVID free,” Browne said.
“The two individuals who have been hospitalized for several weeks, they’re doing very well and they’re expected to make a full recovery … and that is extremely good news. It means that our fatality, if all goes well, will be kept at three.”
‘A need for greater personal responsibility’
According to the prime minister, the health situation in the country, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, clearly has not been that consequential.
But he said residents will have to remain very focussed.
“We have to remain vigilant. The last thing we want is any form of complacency and for there to be a second wave. That will be extremely consequential,” the prime minister noted.
“As we relax the restrictions, which we have been doing for the past several weeks, there will be a need for greater personal responsibility. So to some extent, the risk is being transferred to individuals now to be vigilant and to take personal responsibility to adhere to the various health protocols.”
(This article was written by 268 TODAY journalists)
3 responses to “COVID-19 ‘successfully’ contained. Antigua in better position to address any 2nd wave”
No we’re not! The first wave was a hoax(live exercise) to see how much our freedom we’re willing to give up. If the 2nd wave is a real biological weapon we’re doomed. How can we survive when all the information you give us comes from the very people who want to kill some of us and take away the freedom of the rest?
Can Antigua even test locally yet?????
Please, the test is flawed! Sheldon is right this was all a hoax and the sad thing is that the so called doctors and trained people who should be saying this aren’t!
Mrs Deborah Birx said on live TV that the test will give 50% false positives and people who are dying from many other things will be tagged as died from covid because she using a relaxed approach. I’m very sceptical of Gaston’s tone like when he said that we will see no end to the Cerfew until we receive a vaccine, just like what the “OTHER” people and leaders are saying world wide! Tanzania’s president tested a pawpaw and a few other things for covid and they tested positive and the WHO doesn’t want anyone to use anything (effective or not) like madagascars natural antidote to treat the “Flu”! An upcoming doom and gloom vaccine as indicated as the “final solution” by bill gates, seems to be the only saviour by the money making elite and globalists.
When will the world learn that we are run and controlled by big companies, crooked politicians and tyrants?!
There is so much more I can say but I will not. All the information is out there but people love the convenience of an easy lie instead of seeking information and knowledge.
To Gaston Browne we are watching !