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The CARICOM Secretariat is reporting the Ministers of Health from its member states held an emergency meeting, via video conference, to discuss the coronavirus or COVID-19, as it formally is known. International press reports say that the virus has been detected within 50 countries around the world, and the medical experts are addressing it as a priority.

The CARICOM Ministers of Health agreed to the establishment of a Working Group to formulate possible recommendations and protocols for a regional response to the disease.

Caricom Chairman Mia Mottley has urged that this Working Group recommends a possible course of action for regional governments to consider on how to deal with COVID-19.

Belize’s Minister of Health, Pablo Marin, was not a part of the emergency meeting, but a spokesperson tells us that the Ministry is abreast of the information. 

We are told that at this time, there is another discussion happening within the SICA Member States and that the Director of Health Services has been asked to sit in that one.