Barbados will not be going into a shutdown due to rising COVID-19 numbers, but there will be a slowdown starting from tomorrow night.
During an address to the nation yesterday, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said that with 78 more cases from Wednesday’s testing, it was necessary to adjust the protocols. This will include a 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew from Monday to Saturday, and 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. on Sundays for the next two to four weeks, giving the country enough time to get its vaccination numbers up.
“We are going to have to slow down little bit. I gave this country the assurance on Tuesday that we are not locking down and the more I have gone on the ground is the more that I know that we cannot lockdown because the people who would be affected by it are simply too many. Also the numbers may be far more than we may lose from COVID.
“The bottom line is that COVID is our immediate threat, and just as it is in a marathon, sometimes you would have to slow down, and we need to slow down in order to boost vaccines,” she said. (CLM)
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