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Manzanero also spoke about patients #8 and #7. #8 is 50 year old Ramsley Gillett, a Lands Inspector at the Ministry of Natural Resources. He lives and works in Corozal with a wife and two children and was admitted to the isolation area of the Corozal Community Hospital.

Patent #7 is from the Cayo District - and his positive test is what triggered government to declare a district wide lockdown. And that’s because he appears to have picked it up from within the community.

Manzanero said the mapping exercise on these two patients has been done, and added that Patient #7 no longer needs intensive care:

Dr. Marvin Manzanero - Director of Health Services

"We have done an initial mapping for case number 8, 5 initial close contacts were swabbed and 10 other contacts have also gone through that process. Understand that there are two private facilities that saw this patient before he made contact with the Ministry of Health public health system. So those health care workers will now have to go through that extra screening process if you will. In terms of patient number 7 who is at KHMH, he is improving, he is not really requiring any extra ordinary measures that will require him to be in an ICU. So we are in discussions with the internist intensivists at KHMH to see what mechanism we would have for him if he doesn't require to be in ICU care."