Dominica first Caribbean nation to avoid Covid-19 crisis, no new case in 21 days

The Covid-19 pandemic isn’t over in the small island nation of Dominica. Still, the country has managed its wave of infections efficiently as 13 cases have been already recovered out of a total of 16 confirmed cases with no causalities. It is emerged as first in the whole Caribbean to counter coronavirus and controlled it to only 3 positive cases from the past 21 days.

Commonwealth of Dominica has resilience stems from its health system’s ample supply of mechanical ventilators and hospital beds for intensive care. The answer lies behind the good planning of the Government in regard to this respiratory disease.

According to date provided by the Ministry of Health, Dominica has only 3 active cases, 13 were recovered and no death till date has been recorded by the coronavirus. A total number of 386 persons were tested, and 370 results came out the negative and total number of 152 contacts were identified by the Government, while all 152 cases were cleared.

Apart from this, the Government of Dominica is providing food packages to the most vulnerable persons in the nation, which include old age individuals.

The rapid action after the outbreak of Covid-19 contained the virus across the country, which could have damaged it to greater extents. The nation has marked twenty-one days since its last confirmed case of Covid-19 as per epidemiologist Dr Shalaudin Ahmed during a press briefing.

Director of the Dominica Social Security, Janice Jean Jacques-Thomas reported that her association is getting the endorsement of plans to give impermanent joblessness advantages to people whose employments were influenced because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The proposition which was submitted to the Government for endorsement thought about suggestions from the International Labor Organization, actuarial firm Moreau Sheppell and local private area associations, for example, the Dominica Employers Federation, Dominica Hotel and Tourism Association, Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce were counselled. The transitory joblessness advantage program is relied upon to pad the effect on the income of influenced workers and animate monetary action.