Last Updated on April 2, 2020, 8:33 AM AST by Anthony Morris
The Minister for Health, Social Security and International Business of Grenada, Nickolas T C Steele, announced that one more confirmed case of COVID-19 on mainland Grenada had been diagnosed.
The discovery of this new case has brought the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 coronavirus in the country to 10.
The individual who is the new patient of the novel coronavirus is a 58-year-old male, who had arrived in Grenada from New York on 19 March.
He had started exhibiting symptoms on 30 March and was tested on 31 March.
His current symptoms are recorded as fever, cough and general weakness. He has been quarantined and is being monitored continuously.
There are two other family members in the household of the patient, and they have been under quarantine as well. However, they have not been showing any symptoms of the coronavirus to date.
The individual was found by contact tracing by health officials, using the manifest of the New York Flight, which had arrived in Grenada on 19 March 2020.
He said that he wanted to highlight that healthcare officials have been engaged aggressively in contact tracing, especially of the individuals who had arrived in Grenada during the period of 16-22 March.
He said that the Government had found that most cases so far in Grenada, are imported or import-related. Also, the pattern of spread of coronavirus is similar in several other countries throughout the Caribbean region.
He said that it reminds the country about the need to have closed the borders to contain the spread of the novel virus in the country.
It is noteworthy that all the individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 so far, are stable and exhibiting mild to moderate symptoms.
In terms of testing, 37 people in total have been tested in Grenada. Out of them, ten people have tested positive for the virus, and 1 result is still pending.
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