All persons on UK-Antigua flight in VI found; No signs of COVID-19 infection- Premier
Local authorities sounded the alarm on Monday, March 16, 2020 because there was a positive case of the dreaded virus in Antigua of a female who arrived from the UK on the March 10 British Airways flight.
Another passenger on the same flight has also since tested positive for COVID-19 in Montserrat.
“All persons who travelled on Tuesday, March 10 on the British Airways flight 2157 from London to Antigua and continued onward to the T.B. Lettsome International Airport, are asked to contact the Ministry of Health immediately,” a passionate public plea by Government read.
No need to worry
Addressing the media during a live press conference held at the Office of the House of Assembly on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, Premier Fahie said there was no need to worry.
“Today we got an update that we have basically all the persons, but when the update went out yesterday, they were in the process of just looking for one or two more,” he said.
“It created a little hysteria in the public, but all of them thus far have not shown signs of being infected. What the situation was, was that the British Airways came into Antigua and there were passengers that left from Antigua and went to different places. So there were cases where some of the crew have been confirmed with the coronavirus. As a safety precautionary, they started to look for all the passengers that were on,” Premier Fahie explained.
He continued: “It’s not a matter that they know that they have the virus because the passengers that have been found, the tests have not shown, or the symptoms have not shown, that they have the virus.”
There are now 202,270 coronavirus cases worldwide.
Out of that figure, 82,813 have recovered, and 8,012 have died.
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