Several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries reported deaths and new positive cases linked to the coronavirus (COVID-19) over the past24 hours, with Trinidad and Tobago also indicating that there had been more cases of the Delta variant of the virus.
Authorities in the Dutch-speaking CARICOM country reported that 10 people have died from COVID-19 and that there had also been 153 new positive cases over the past 24 hours.
In total, Suriname has had a number of 855 deaths and 40,061 infections since March 2020, while 26,868 people have recovered after being infected with the virus.
There are 98 people in the various hospitals, 18 of whom are in the Intensive Care units. 47 people are in isolation.
In Guyana, eight more people have died from the virus taking the country’s death toll to 762. The authorities said that one of those who died was fully vaccinated; while the others were unvaccinated.
The latest fatalities also mean that for the month of September, 137 persons have died, the highest number of deaths recorded in a single month since March last year.
The Ministry of Health in a statement on Sunday night said that all of the patients died while receiving medical care at various facilities.
Meanwhile, a total of 241 new COVID cases were recorded from 1,724 tests, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 31, 148.
There are 31 patients in the COVID-19 ICU at the Infectious Diseases Hospital; 166 patients are in institutional isolation and 3,919 patients are in home isolation. To date, 26,270 people have recovered from the virus.
Trinidad and Tobago confirmed six more cases of the Delta variant of the virus, as the country reported 10 more deaths and 127 new infections over the past 24 hours.
The Ministry of Health said that so far, Trinidad and Tobago has detected 17 cases of the Delta variant and that one of the new cases is an unvaccinated minor who travelled to the country from New York. The other five cases have no recent history of travel.
It said all patients have been placed in isolation until the enhanced discharge criteria for people with
COVID-19 variants of concern is achieved and that contact tracing, testing and quarantining of contacts have also been initiated.
The World Health Organization confirmed that the Delta variant has been detected in 185 countries.
The ministry said that the 10 new deaths pushed the death toll since March last year to 1, 457 with 49, 947 positive cases. There are 4, 316 active cases with 44, 176 persons having recovered from the virus.
There are 292 patients in hospitals, 156 in state sanctioned facilities and 3, 827 in home isolation.
In St. Lucia, one person died and that there have been 87 new cases of COVID-19.
The Ministry of Health and Wellness in its Sunday bulletin said that the new positive cases were from 353 samples collected between September 24 and 25. It said the new cases bring the total number of cases diagnosed in- country to date to 11,231.
The ministry said the one death has increased the total to 140. It said that a 53 year old female from the Laborie district, south of here.
“Confirmation was also received of the recovery of 72 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19. This brings the number of active cases in-country to 2170. Currently, one active case is critical while 14 others are severely ill at the Respiratory Hospital,” the ministry added.
Barbados also recorded deaths in the past 24 hours due to the virus.
The authorities said 86 females and 89 males are the latest COVID-19 cases and the authorities said of the 175 new cases, 43 persons are under the age of 18, and 132 are 18 years and older.
There are 1,037 patients in isolation.
Three persons passed away on Saturday. They were all females, aged 50, 66, and 84, who had comorbidities and were unvaccinated.
Barbados has recorded 7,576 confirmed cases (3,736 males and 3,840 females) of the viral illness, and 67 deaths.
Source – CMC
