The Latest Covid-19 update published last evening shows that 153 new cases of the virus have been detected over a 24-hour period, bringing to 599, the total new cases since the recent spike.
In our luncheon edition yesterday, we told you that a fourth persons had succumbed to virus complications.
This has been reported in the latest COVID-update.
Off the 599 new cases, 590 are considered to be local transmission…9 are active imported.
The Ministry of Health says that the 599 cases are in isolation.
The number of new cases brings to 817, the total number of confirmed cases since the virus was first identified in Grenada March 22 last year.
124 of the overall figure have been imported cases.
At a meeting of the Lower House of Parliament today, members paid a mark of respect for those who lost their lives in view of COVID-19.
A mark of respect in Parliament for those who departed this life on account of COVID-19!
Health Minister, Nikolas Steele, called for a togetherness of mind, body and soul, with everyone in unity to get through this period, on the understanding of doing what is necessary to stave off the deadliness of the virus.
In the case of the virus, Steele warns what we do today will certainly have effects 14 days from now.
He was speaking in the Nation’s Parliament this morning.
Speaker in the House of Representatives, Michael Pierre, called on sectoral leadership in the country to instill the right things into their constituencies for the fight against COVID-19 must be a strategy where everyone is on the same page.
He sees the time now very much appropriate for the language of vaccine for safeguarding the Nation.
