(CNS): In addition to news of a prison officer testing positive for COVID-19, indicating a potential third outbreak on Grand Cayman, officials have reported that nine more students at the George Town Primary School tested positive in the results collated this morning after yesterday’s testing. Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee recorded a video at lunchtime Thursday in which he said there were ten new community transmissions and four positive travellers among the morning’s results.
But this was before it was confirmed in the afternoon that a staff member at WORC is currently in isolation following contact with an individual who subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. That person is now isolating as they await the result of their test and other staff members are working remotely.
It is not clear the extent of the current outbreaks but there are at least 25 confirmed active cases of the virus that have been acquired in the community.
While the coronavirus, most likely the Delta variant, is now apparently spreading locally, Dr Lee said the numbers are not yet significant. Reassuringly, he said more than 6,000 people, close to 10% of the population, have been tested over the last week since the first reported community case and “relatively few” of those tested, only around 25 people, have been positive so far.
However, testing and tracing is not over and Public Health is still trying to trace and test a few students and their families at GTPS. Dr Lee urged people connected...
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