Delta variant likely still lurking in BVI — Health Minister
While the BVI was swiftly able to find and isolate the contacts of the single local patient who tested positive for the Delta variant of COVID-19, the territory potentially has a bigger problem on its hands.
No one knows how this patient came to contract this variant which experts say is highly contagious and potentially more fatal than any other strain of COVID-19.
According to Health Minister Carvin Malone who delivered a COVID update this week, “the positive case didn’t have a travel history, therefore, we can assume that the Delta variant may still be and is likely to be lurking within the territory”.
“Universally, studies are showing that the Delta variant is affecting unvaccinated persons at a much greater percentage than persons who are vaccinated. Typically vaccinated people are either asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms if they do come in contact with the Delta variant,” the minister stated.
“In the United States, as of July 22, 2021, 97 percent of persons hospitalised with COVID-19 were unvaccinated … Locally, our very own statistics have provided us with similar results. The majority of those adversely affected by COVID were unvaccinated, this is why, I as your Minister for Health will continue to encourage the unvaccinated persons in our community to get vaccinated,” Malone added.
Meanwhile, the BVI’s COVID-19 epidemiological summary dated August 18, shows that the territory’s total number of recorded cases stands at 2,568. Of that number, 31 are active cases — four of whom are currently hospitalised.
The territory’s COVID death told current rests at 37 persons.
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Maybe you need to interrogate the person harder to see if they will talk how they got it or who they associated with, surly was something illegal went down.
Well if people or government have been paying attention to international new,Which i believe they know, The delta variant is associated with the shedding of vaccinated people.They said it in europe and america news. Those other countries are far ahead of the trials than the bvi.
This is homicidal nonsense, parroted from conspiracy websites. You should be ashamed of yourself.
“With 2 of 2 doses of either vaccine effectiveness
against infection is estimated at around 65 to 90%”
“household contacts of cases vaccinated with a single dose had approximately 35 to 50% reduced risk of becoming a confirmed case of COVID-19”
i.e. Vaccines stop infection and transmission, including delta, from large-scale real-life studies.
Source: PHE Vaccine Surveillance Report 19 August 2021.
When did it ever ?leave