Cayman Islands: COvid-19 Cases - 205 cases; 1 death

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Source: https://www.thestkittsnevisobserver....maarten-tt-ab/

FIRST COVID-19 CASE DIAGNOSED IN CAYMANS

CAYMAN ISLANDS (GIS) – The Public Health Department confirms that one of the persons tested recently for the novel coronavirus has tested positive.

“The patient is a visitor who was transferred from a cruise ship for a critical cardiac issue,” said Medical Health Officer, Dr. Samuel Williams-Rodriguez.

Dr. Williams continued, “The patient was doing well but subsequently developed breathing difficulties, was isolated and a test taken has confirmed is suffering with the novel coronavirus.”...

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Source: https://caymannewsservice.com/2020/0...s-health-city/

COVID-19 patient dies at Health City
Cayman News | 14/03/2020
Cayman News Service
Health City Cayman Islands

(CNS): Health City Cayman Islands has confirmed that the patient being treated there for cardiac problems who had also contracted the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, died in the early morning hours of Saturday, 14 March. The 68-year-old man who was a visitor to Cayman, having arrived ill on a cruise ship, is the country’s first victim of this pandemic. He had been treated in isolation at the HCCI’s Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)...

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Source: https://www.caymancompass.com/2020/0...ospital-visit/

Isolated student taken to hospital
By Reshma Ragoonath -
March 22, 2020


Health officials have said a student who returned this week and was staying in one of the isolation facilities provided by government, is currently under investigation for a viral illness...

...As of Friday, Cayman had three confirmed cases of COVID-19. The first case was an Italian man who came off the Costa Luminosa cruise ship with a critical cardiac condition.

He died last Saturday.

Two medical staffers, who treated him at Health City Cayman Islands, have tested positive for coronavirus...

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Source: https://www.caymancompass.com/2020/0...ravel-history/

...Health officials said Tuesday that a case had come back positive for COVID-19 for a patient at the Cayman Islands Hospital who, on preliminary investigation, appeared to have no recent travel history and had not been in contact with anyone who had travelled.

A public health team is being sent to the patient’s house this morning to conduct further investigations....

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Source: https://caymannewsservice.com/2020/0...w-people-sick/

...Cayman has still tested only a relatively small amount of people here because of a chronic shortage of testing kits. There were still no new supplies on island Friday, leaving the authorities with less than 100 kits. But of the tests being conducted, the vast majority so far are negative.

Dr Lee said that 190 tests have been conducted to date, with 181 negative results. Of the nine positives, two people had a travel history to countries where the pandemic was already transmitting locally and both patients were isolated. Six include ‘patient zero’, the cruise passenger who died at Health City Cayman Islands, four members of staff at HCCI who took care of him, plus another patient at that facility.

The ninth positive result is the one described as inconclusive and the only one where the transmission cannot be accounted for. Dr Lee said he expected that the confirmation regarding that patient’s sample would take several more days, and in the interim he was continuing to be treated as positive.

He also confirmed that, as far as he was aware, none of the patients were particularly unwell, with most of those who have tested positive having recovered or displaying only mild symptoms...

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Source: http://www.loopcayman.com/content/ca...covid-19-cases

Cayman now has 12 positive COVID-19 cases
Daphne Ewing Chow Created : 29 March 2020

Cayman has four new COVID-19 cases, with a total of 12 cases in total.

According to Chief Medical Officer, Dr John Lee, the four new positive tests have a travel history or a connection to travellers and their contacts are being tested. Two of the people were living in the community and were living among travellers and the other two were travellers who had isolated themselves. Two of the positive cases were connected to each other. Other than the one inconclusive case previously mentioned, there is still no confirmed case of community transmission.

To date there have been 207 people tested for COVID-19 in the Cayman Islands...

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Source: http://www.loopjamaica.com/content/c...transmission-2

Cayman reports community transmission of COVID-19
Daphne Ewing Chow Created : 31 March 2020

There is now community transmission of COVID-19 in the Cayman Islands.

As of the most recent batch of tests, there are two instances of positive COVID-19 results where there was no travel history, according to the British territory's chief medical officer.

Cayman Islands has 14 cases of COVID-19...

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Source: https://caymannewsservice.com/2020/0...ve-cases-grow/

COVID-19 positive cases in Cayman grow
Cayman News | 01/04/2020 | 0 Comments
Cayman News Service
Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee at Wednesday’s press briefing

(CNS): Another eight people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Cayman but only one of this latest group has no travel history. The other seven are people who have returned from overseas recently or are in households with returners who have previously tested positive. At this stage, we have 22 positive cases, three of which are confirmed as community transmissions. One of those who was positive in this latest batch is currently in hospital with respiratory symptoms, Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee has said...

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Source: https://caymannewsservice.com/2020/0...s-of-covid-19/

...Given the ongoing shortage of test kits, which government officials say they are desperate to address, only 265 people have been tested so far. Of those, 28 samples have been confirmed as positive. This includes the first sample of a suspected community transmission here, which has finally been confirmed as positive by CARPHA, after the testing here was inconclusive.

Three more were also community transmissions, but Doctor Lee said this still not widespread because these transmissions are largely confined to people in the same families and households. He said that four of the five new cases reported Thursday all came from the same household where the virus was first detected in someone who had previously been overseas...

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1 more case- total 29: http://www.loopcayman.com/content/ca...-case-29-total

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Source: http://www.loopcayman.com/content/ca...35-cases-total
Cayman: 6 new COVID-19 cases; first from Cayman Brac; 35 cases total
Daphne Ewing Chow Created : 4 April 2020

The Cayman Islands has today received 46 COVID-19 test results. 27 of the tests originate from the government and there are 19 tests from the general public. All of the government tests are negative. 6 from the general public are positive. 1 is from Cayman Brac and the other five are from Grand Cayman. This brings the total positive cases in Cayman to 35.

1 person has no travel history, the others either have travel history or are connected to other positives. The first positive Cayman Brac case had contact with someone who had travelled. The Cayman Brac case was tested because they had symptoms.

None of these cases had been previously quarantined, which is not a good sign...

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39 cases: https://www.caymancompass.com/2020/0...cture-unknown/

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45 cases: http://www.loopcayman.com/content/6-...covid-19-cases

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https://www.caymancompass.com/2020/0...ical-supplies/

Medical supplies purchased by the Health Services Authority have been confiscated by the United States Government, Premier Alden McLaughlin confirmed.

The supplies were already loaded on the container and was aboard the ship ready to depart when it was stopped and removed by US authorities, he said.

“Yesterday [Tuesday] the US authorities removed from a ship that was coming to Cayman a container which contained eight ventilators, 50,000 masks and various other bits and pieces,” McLaughlin said during Wednesday’s COVID-19 daily briefing.

“That has been a huge disappointment to us. All of those were things that were procured and purchased in the US,” he said.

According to international reports five other countries including, Canada, Germany and Barbados, have also had their medical supplies blocked due to an executive order issued by US president Donald *****.

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Source: https://www.loopslu.com/content/caym...ses-53-total-4

Cayman: 8 more positive COVID-19 cases; 53 total
Daphne Ewing Chow Created : 11 April 2020

According Dr Lee, Chief Medical Officer of Cayman, Cayman now has 53 positive cases of COVID-19. This is after an additional 8 positive COVID-19 cases were confirmed at today's government COVID-19 press briefing.

This consists of two positive cases who were connected to previous positive cases and another six whose backgrounds continue to be investigated...