50 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in USVI; 43 recoveries so far
-34 cases in St Thomas, 14 cases on St Croix & 2 on St. John
The USVI Department of Health on Thursday revealed that five additional positive coronavirus cases brought the number of people in the territory who have been infected with the disease to 50. Photo: Internet Source
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St. Thomas, USVI - The USVI Department of Health on Thursday revealed that five additional positive coronavirus cases brought the number of people in the territory who have been infected with the disease to 50. The department did not send the alert of new cases through the VITEMA Alert system.
According to the health department, 34 of those cases were confirmed on St. Thomas, 14 on St. Croix and 2 on St. John. Of the 50 cases 43 people have recovered, D.O.H. said.
On St. Croix, 10 of the confirmed cases were travel-related, three through community spread and one person was infected by coming into contact with someone who had the disease, the health department said.
On St. Thomas, seven of the cases were travel-related, 12 community spread and 13 through contact with persons who had contracted the disease.
St. John's only two cases were travel related.
The Department of Health said 45 cases were pending results as of Thursday: 24 on St. Croix, 15 on St. Thomas and six on St. John.
A total of 273 cases have returned negative.
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16 Responses to “50 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in USVI; 43 recoveries so far”
You have a high percentage 86% recovered which is rare as the recovery numbers tend to lag way behind the overall numbers. Then 13.58% positive out of all tests a bit high but that could be down to the lack of mass testing in any case good that they have identified a decent percentage and isolated those persons. They need to test more but so do we however this is not out of control.
Quit with the scaremongering.
The testing samples are too small for proper comparative analysis. Also the sample sizes are not even close as the Bvi tested only 64 persons while USVI tested 368 which is 300 more. BVI should be testing more.
It's the thought that counts, at the same time, do we know if a product came from a household with coronavirus? Each household has to practice good sanitation to protect each other.