Last Updated on July 19, 2021, 7:26 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Basseterre: St Kitts and Nevis has successfully managed to flatten the spread of COVID-19 and successfully prevented its healthcare system from being overwhelmed with patients from the deadly COVID-19 virus.
Since the start of the second wave of infections from May 19, 2021, the country has recorded 505 cases in 60 days with 438 cases recovered and three deaths. Eighty-eight (88) percent of all confirmed cases are now recovered.
Thirty-one patients admitted to the COVID-19 ward at JNF General Hospital have been discharged and one patient is still being admitted to hospital, according to the country’s chief medical officer, Dr Hazel Laws.
The Medical Chief of Staff at the JNF General Hospital, Dr. Cameron Wilkinson, has repeatedly said that an important part of managing COVID-19 is to prevent healthcare overload.
St Kitts and Nevis was one of the last countries in the Americas to import any cases of the Coronavirus. The country made preparations early on before the first two cases were confirmed on 24 March 2020. Two COVID-19 wards are equipped in the country, with 36 ventilators in the JNF General Hospital in St Kitts and seven (7) at Alexandra Hospital in Nevis.
On 28 March 2020, a brigade of 34 specialists, 30 nurses and four (4) doctors, trained in Intensive Care Medicine, arrived in the country to strengthen its health sector in the fight against COVID-19.
St. Kitts and Nevis COVID-19 Situation Report No. 478 as of Saturday 17 July 2021 states that the total number of confirmed cases now stands at 550 with 64 active cases and 483 cases recovered. 532 of the cases were in St. Kitts recorded, while 18 were registered in Nevis. To date, there have been 23, 221 negative results.
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