Caribbean News
Barbados records increase in COVID deaths in July
Rashaed Esson
Staff Writer
#BArbados, July 27, 2023 – COVID-19 continues to move through the Caribbean infecting and claiming lives as Barbados recorded eight deaths between July 8 and July 21, 2023.
Eight hundred and twenty-one tests were conducted and from that 227 cases were found, giving a positivity rate of 27.65.
Now, the death toll for the country in relation to the virus is at 620.
This comes just a month after an outbreak on ward at Geriatric Hospital on the outskirts of the capital.
The Pan American Organization continues to inform countries on the importance of continuing public awareness on hand hygiene, cough and sneeze etiquette, and the importance of social distancing, despite the fact that we have nearly, if not entirely gone back to living life as it was before covid.
COVID-19 is still at large and so we must continue to be vigilant.