Tonight, Belize still has only one confirmed case of COVID-19. There have been 64 total tests done and one positive result. That’s the case out in San Pedro, a 38 year old female, a Belizean national who returned from Los Angeles on Thursday and started exhibiting symptoms on Friday.
She’s in self quarantine and she’s already getting over the flu symptoms. But what about all those she came in contact with? From the international flight she arrived on at the airport, then on a domestic flight to San Pedro, and then on the island.
At today’s “Ask the Experts†session in Belmopan, the Director of Health Services said the mapping of her contacts has amounted to 34 people:
Dr. Marvin Manzanero - Director of Health Services
"The first preliminary exercise in San Pedro in terms of the mapping has happened. I know that the immediate contacts of the person who the index cases are going to be swabbed and those samples will be brought today. Its 34 people that have been initially mapped, it doesn't mean that these 34 people were in direct contact or in close contact but that's part of the mapping exercise. You have to map out and we have all the names, addresses and so forth. Not everybody from that 34 will swabbed, you just have to interact with them as the level of interaction and determine your risk based on that, so that has been completed for today."
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