The 15 employees of the Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA) who were tested for COVID-19 by the Ministry of Health as part of a contact tracing programme are all free of the virus.
The Pan American Health Organisation Representative for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries, Dr Yitades Gebre, is urging ministries of health and other sectors to scale up efforts to prevent severe outbreaks of dengue fever in the region.
United Nations – Barbados’ Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Jerome X. Walcott told the international community on Tuesday that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has “stripped us bare”.