Premier Wayne Panton, following confirmation of a George Town Primary School student testing positive for COVID-19, said in a live address to Cayman on Tuesday morning that his government has no plans at this time to implement a new lockdown.
The Year 6 student tested positive for the virus on Monday. The student is the fourth community transmission case to be reported in less than a week. The three others are connected, but the student appears to be a separate case of transmission.
Panton said, in light of the recent local transmission cases, the government was reviewing measures regarding the next phase of the border-reopening plan, set to come into effect on 14 Oct.
The premier said Cabinet will meet this morning (14 Sept.) to “finalise additional public health measures in light of two separate incidents of local transmission, including mask mandates, increased surveillance testing, reconsideration of quarantine periods, and revisiting the rules around who can visit Cayman.
“Based on the information that we have at this time, we are not considering a lockdown.”
Under Phase 4 of the border-reopening plan, the five-day quarantine period for securely verified vaccinated travellers was due to be abolished.
Neither the student nor the three other individuals who tested positive last week have a travel history, officials have said, and Panton said the student also did not have direct contact with a traveller, adding that tracking and tracing had begun on Monday. No other...
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