An emerging statistic coming out of the COVID-19 corona virus pandemic is the vulnerability of the elderly, who, should they contract the virus, are considerably more likely to die than younger generations.
Health City Cayman Islands is reporting that the first 19 of the hospital’s staff members tested for COVID-19 are negative for the virus.
The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) has confirmed testing for COVID-19 will be available locally from this week.
Cabinet took some key decisions Friday to try and contain the COVID-19 corona virus outbreak in Cayman.
The Public Health Department confirmed the first case of a person in the Cayman Islands with the novel coronavirus, after one of the five people who were tested for the virus earlier in the week, tested positive.
The Ministry of Commerce, Planning and Infrastructure on Wednesday announced of the decision not to proceed with the proposed Smith Barcadere project.
Hon. Premier Alden McLaughlin praised the firefighters who had managed to get one of the biggest fires in living memory under control in just 24 hours.
“Runnin’ in di republic - it’s a West Bay ting” was a fitting slogan for the third annual CUC 5K walk/run which started before dawn at Pappagallo’s and did a big loop along Conch Point Road, down Top Sail Road and then back to finish at Pappagallo’s again.
Even though the economic forecast for the global economy was fairly positive at the start of this year, the advent of the Corona virus (COVID-19) had changed everything, according to Premier Alden McLaughlin, speaking at last week’s Royal Fidelity Cayman Business Outlook conference.
Notwithstanding unprecedented challenges to the tourism market in the dawn of 2020, a positive trend of more visitors and greater occupancy rates continues as January stayover arrivals to the Cayman Islands went up by nearly four percent according to the Department of Tourism.