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Negative Results From Contacts of American Visitor With COVID-19
posted (March 24, 2020)

And, continuing with our COIVD coverage, health authorities today gave an update on the American tourist who spent 5 days in Belize last week, and then tested positive for COIVD-19 after he returned to New York. He is a young male, who was touring in a larger group and sharing accommodations with at leats two other men.  Tracing has been done on all his contacts in Belize, and Manzanero said they were all negative:..

Dr. Marvin Manzanero - Director of Health Services
"We got the note from the International Health Regulations Focal Point in the US to indicate that they had not been able to trace any person that had been positive after leaving Belize. It was rumour surveillance accordingly and the people who did get swabbed from that rumour surveillance got their results yesterday, they were all negative for COVID 19."

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