A four-year-old child is among the country’s latest six COVID-19 patients, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Rhonda Sealey-Thomas said.
Of the six recent cases, five are females while the other is a male.
They range in age from four years old to 57 years, Sealey-Thomas revealed Sunday evening.
“Five of them were identified from contact from a case we had identified from before and the other one is a case that is not linked to that index case from our previous laboratory investigation,” the CMO said.
Sealey-Thomas said none of the cases could be classified as imported, noting that, “Our investigation so far has identified that these six cases were persons in Antigua and Barbuda with no travel history so far.”
Sealey-Thomas said health authorities have been in contact with the school which the child attends as well as the Ministry of Education.
She said based on the protocols in placed at the school, they are pretty sure that social distancing would have taken place as much as possible.
However, she said the children in that school will be quarantined.
The CMO said the cases are “sporadic” but health officials believe Antigua and Barbuda is definitely at the stage now to be classified as “clusters.”
“Over the last few weeks we’ve seen certain clusters of cases,” she said.
3 responses to “New COVID patients include a 4-year-old child”
Here we go again.
If the people were being told the location of these “clusters” they are lightly to be more careful . Also people need to know that this virus is airborne and how this works . It’s ridiculous how some people wear their masks .
The CMO needs to give max hurst the script because he he chatting pure chupitniss this morning on observer