Barbados restricted the visits to the C1 wing of the Saint Philip district hospital until further notice and activated protocols to prevent and control the spread of coronaviruses, after confirming 12 patients with Covid-19 there.

Likewise, that nation reported two deaths from dengue and began to monitor the evolution of respiratory infections both in the region and in the main countries of origin of its international tourism, in order to make the necessary arrangements in case of a possible health crisis.

In addition, it urged its population to keep posted and to go to the doctor at the slightest discomfort.

Similar measures were taken in Curaçao in the Medical Center of its capital city, where 18 patients contracted influenza and seven caught the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, which causes Covid-19.

Although Curaçao’s authorities assured that everything is under control, they called on the population not to neglect hygiene and personal care, they postponed surgeries for individuals with influenza and reactivated the mechanism for confronting the Covid-19 pandemic.

Besides, they decreed the mandatory use of facemasks when visiting penitentiary centers, banks and other public and private institutions.

Caribbean nations such as the Bahamas, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, and St. Kitts and Nevis continue to be alert to the upsurge in infectious diseases and viruses, and measures are not ruled out to thwart any of them from generating a health problem.

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