Moving on now from the police to the Ministry of Health, in today's "Ask the Experts" session the Director of Health Services said that they are now in receipt of a new batch of tests and have embarked on a ramped up testing regimen:...
Dr. Marvin Manzanero - Director of Health Services
"We got a further arriving on Friday and on Friday we have decided the ministry of health team to scale up testing in search of further cases. As you will note this is a third case, but they are all link to imported cases, o we have not been able to ascertain community transmission up until now. What we decided on Friday was also that we were going to be doing testing for any healthcare worker that was ill - do random sampling of any influenza-like illness across the country and we did some of those yesterday and swabbing any frontline person who may have been in contact with tourists, people at the airport even if they have no signs or symptoms and that's random checks that we going to start to do throughout this week. Again, we have been doing that. Some of the people being swabbed yesterday was tourguides - doesn't mean they are having signs or symptoms, we are just trying to scale the response in that regard."
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