And while those benefits are for workers who have lost their jobs, what about those healthcare workers on the frontline who have to deal with the COVID Cases? The Prime Minister says there will be special funds for them:
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister
"I want to make clear that those frontline persons will be taken care of fully and completely in so far as personal protective equipment is concerned. In so far as dealing first of all with the workers at the KHMH, in so far as finding separate quarters for them to live in, a part from their family homes, while they are on the front lines of the struggle, so that there can be no question of their endangering the welfare of their family members. They will be taken care of with respect to an augmented compensation package to ensure that they can pay for babysitting services, they can pay for other things that they will need as they remain on the front line of this existential combat and they will as part of that augmented compensation package, be given additional monies as a token of appreciation for this particularly dangerous but so absolutely vital job of work that they're doing."
And, an update to our first story, that one more persons has tested positive for COVID 19. There is a follow up release from the ministry of health. Â
“One immediate contact (to the infected person) resulted as a positive case. The patient is stable and has no signs or symptoms as of today. All other samples are negative. To date, there are two confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Belize.
In addition, five other samples which were collected from two other districts all tested negative. As part of the ongoing enhanced surveillance, further tests which were collected today, March 25th, in San Pedro and other districts will be processed at the lab later today. The Ministry of Health will continue its enhanced public surveillance across the country.â€
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