COVID-19 outbreak reported at Barbados Geriatric Hospital ward

Barbados well being authorities have confirmed an outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) at a ward of the Geriatric Hospital on the outskirts of the capital, Bridgetown.

The nation’s Ministry of Well being and Wellness stated it has since suspended visits to the ward and that 4 sufferers have examined optimistic for the virus between Monday, Might 29 and June 6.

“The Ministry is carefully monitoring the state of affairs and measures have been put in place to regulate the unfold of COVID-19 within the hospital,” the well being ministry stated in a press release.

The ministry added that it might advise when visits to the ward would resume, including “any inconvenience triggered to relations and associates is deeply regretted”.

The Pan American Well being Group (PAHO) has instructed Barbados and different Caribbean international locations that it is very important proceed public consciousness available hygiene, cough, and sneeze etiquette.

It added that international locations ought to proceed social distancing whilst they calm down the measures that had been out in place to curb the unfold of the virus that killed or contaminated hundreds of individuals within the area because the first case was detected in 2020.

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