Barbados hits 63 COVID-19 cases

Barbados has 63 confirmed cases of COVID-19. And on Tuesday morning, the island's third COVID19 positive patient passed away. He was a 95-year-old man.

Head of the Infection Prevention and Control/Infectious Diseases Programs at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) Dr Corey Forde said: "He provided to us pretty late and had been extremely ill as much as this factor." He died at 3 am.

Through contact tracing, the deceased turned into traced back to his daughter, who had a travel record to the USA.

"She is also now in isolation. She is our one admission for the day a this, and she's quite adequately at this point in the much less high-dependency vicinity of the isolation."

In isolation, 53 sufferers and three also cases had been recorded last  night. They are anticipated to enter isolation these days on Tuesday.

At Paragon, 17 persons are comprising eight and nine males, who are all stable. Two have screened terrible, but everyone wishes to have one extra terrible before they can be released. He said, "[This is] pretty true for us."

At the Enmore campus, there three sufferers'related and critical. Of the three, a 52-year-old is "extraordinarily ill", and I s scenario is complicated by way of diabetes. The other sufferers on ventilators are two girls, ages seventy-eight and 56.

Twenty-nine COVID-superb patients are at the 0.33 campus, Blackman and Gollop Primary including 16 ladies and 13 males. Of those 29, "4 continue to be in our more high-dependency location," said Forde. The four patients vary in age from 60 years antique to eighty years old.

Four patients are in isolation outside  for government facilities. The seven-year-old is at domestic in isolation together with his father who's also COVID-superb, and any other couple who has tested wonderful is isolated at their residence as well.

In relation to the two persons at Paragon who are waiting  for their 2 negative test, Forde also shared that one is the husband of a lady previously discharged, and he stated they're fortuitously ready to facilitate that reunion.

Dr Forde changed into speaking for the duration of an eleven am press conference from Ilaro Court.

Barbados has carried out 602 tests so far.