THE 90 Nigerian students are to be quarantined after one of them tested positive for scabies, a contagious skin infection.
The decision was made yesterday evening after a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart at Government Headquarters, Bay Street, St Michael.
Reports are that officials are exploring the possibility of keeping the students at the Barbados Defence Force.
Attending the meeting were Acting Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith, Defence Force Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Alvin Quintyne and senior officials of the Ministry of Health.
Hours earlier, a team of about 40 officials, including doctors and health inspectors, descended on Casa Grande Hotel at Oldbury, St Philip, where the students have been housed for the past two weeks.
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