“1,500 NEW COVID cases in four days – Test positivity soar” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “The new years weekend brought with it record numbers of new COVID cases in The Bahamas as the fourth wave continued sweeping the country.

Between Thursday and Sunday, 1,535 cases were confirmed.

On Thursday alone, 520 were recorded – a new single day record that replaced the one set only a few days before.

On Friday, 289 cases were confirmed, and on Saturday, the first day of the year, 249 cases were recorded.  On Sunday, another 477 cases were confirmed.

Of the new cases, 1,320 were on New Providence, 82 on Grand Bahama, 18 on Abaco, 18 on Andros, 10 in Exuma, eight on Eleuthera, five on the Berry Islands, two on Acklins, one on Bimini, one on Cat Island, one on Crooked Island, one on Inagua, one on Long Island, and 67 had locations pending.

Seventeen of the Andros cases were confirmed Saturday in a notable jump for the island after health officials said last week that things had been relatively quiet there in terms of cases.  Another was confirmed on Sunday.

On all four days, the positivity rates were far above the five percent maximum recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).  Thursday’s rate was 39.9 percent; Friday’s was 27.1 percent; Saturday’s was 55.3 percent and Sunday’s was 48 percent.

The figures indicate that testing is likely not capturing a significant number of actual cases.

As of Sunday, 43 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in The Bahamas.

The number is significantly lower than the record 195 hospitalized in early September 2012.

However; hospitalized over the weekend were notably higher than they were last week Wednesday when 23 people were hospitalized.”

Going into the last election the New Day Davis led Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), while in opposition, consistently criticized the Free National Movement (FNM) government for the spread of the COVID-19 virus in The Bahamas.  The Davis led PLP opposition even put together a taskforce and claimed to have made ‘suggestions’ to the Minnis led FNM government on how to control and mitigate the spread of the virus.  They claimed that the Minnis administration did not pay attention to their taskforce and it’s ‘suggestions’, claiming this to be a part of the reason why the Minnis administration had no control over the spread and mitigation of the virus.

We are not at the dawn of a New Day with a new variant of the Covid-19 virus, this one not as deadly as the one that the Minnis administration dealt with but much more contagious and the numbers of the infected has began to hit record numbers but oddly enough we have not heard a word from the PLP’s COVID-19 Taskforce – it’s as if they were just campaign material – were they?   The main point being silently pushed by the PLP through its avid social media campaigners is this…” well at least no one is dying”, so my next question is this; is it alright for the new variant to spread unchecked and should not one really pay any attention as long as it does not kill anyone?

The very suggestion is asinine but this is exactly what is being suggested.

Is this the New Day’s PLP government plan when dealing with COVD-19 in The Bahamas?

If the Minnis administration “failed” in the control and the mitigation of the COVID-19 virus, didn’t the Davis opposition learn from these ‘mistakes’ and if they did, do we really have to being going through this tremendous fourth wave at this very moment?

 Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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