By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Friday 21st May 2021) — Chief Medical Officer Dr. Hazel Laws reported at the NEOC COVID-19 Daily Briefing on Thursday 20th May 2021 that over 100 samples are being processed as part of contact tracing for Case 46 — the Federation’s latest COVID-19 case, who is a hotel housekeeper with no travel history and who is not vaccinated. The individual is in stable condition and in isolation. Twenty close contacts have been identified and placed in quarantine.
Notably, contacts who wore masks, used hand sanitizer and maintained physical distancing have already been coming back with negative results. “For those individuals who wore their mask, who had hand sanitizers, who maintained that distance, their results are already coming back negative — so these public health measures work,” Dr. Laws said. She stressed the importance of contact tracing in breaking the chain of transmission and called on the public for full cooperation. The case is “probably the first in a cluster of cases,” she warned, with results from the testing exercise expected to dictate the way forward.