St Lucia records fourth case of coronavirus

St Lucia has revealed a fourth case of the coronavirus.

The island's Ministry of Health issued a release Saturday, March 28, 2020, saying:

"As of this week Saint Lucia commenced checking out for COVID-19 in-united states, and the first batch of tests had been conducted on Friday, March 27. To date, 29 trials have been performed with 28 being negative.

On Saturday, March 28, the Laboratory Director at the Ezra Long Laboratory of the Owen King EU Hospital reported one compelling case which brings our country full overall of showed examples of COVID-19 to four.

This is the first unusual case from nearby checking out.

The man or woman is a 49-year-old lady national, nurse via profession, with a travel history to the United Kingdom.

She back to Saint Lucia on Saturday, March 21 and was placed in quarantine at some stage in which time she advanced a cough and samples had been taken for testing. Her consequences have confirmed that she is excellent for COVID-19 and she has because been transferred into isolation. The person is doing nicely, and he or she is in precise spirits.

The Department of Health currently challenges ordinary touch tracing as required by our protocol.

As indicated in a press update earlier this week, the first two confirmed instances of COVID-19 have been repatriated to the UK this week. The 0.33 case has recovered, however, has been stored in isolation as a precautionary measure to reduce any possible threat of transmission.

To date, Saint Lucia has over 300 humans in quarantine. This quarantine is a combination of home-primarily based and facility-based; about 260 in facility quarantine and about 50 in domestic quarantine.

Facility quarantine started on Friday, March 20, and to date, three centres have been mounted for this purpose. Persons controlled at the facility-based quarantine sites are managed on the price of the kingdom, and this consists of the provision of their boarding, meals as well as their medical checks and monitoring.

All people in facility-based quarantine are doing nicely and have advanced no signs of COVID-19 to date. As such, there has been no want for trying out of these individuals. In retaining with global standards and protocols, testing is completed only while persons develop signs of the virus to make certain accuracy of checking out effects.

Valid Monday, March 23, 2020, the Government of Saint Lucia instituted national united states diminish of domestic offerings for two weeks.

The public has been guided that this degree is put in region to lessen direct character to individual contact and as such, reduce the potential risk of transmission of COVID-19.

This degree requires the guide and compliance of all to undertake a different physical distance from other humans or objects in public places.

Though this could be reputedly difficult, the degree is one in every of the only and means of preventing neighbourhood transmission and calls for the input of every single character in making our countrywide reaction to COVID-19 active.

By every and everyone playing their part all through this shrink with the aid of remaining at domestic, warding off social activities and public locations together we will be better placed to prevent the unfold of the virus.

We keep proposing the general public to attend on the maintenance of standard guidelines to save you the unfold of infection.

The Department of Health and Wellness will keep providing daily updates on COVID-19."