The Director of Health Services posted the latest update on Facebook a few hours ago and he says, quote "the family acknowledges that they had been across the border in the month of June due to a family emergency. The link that we are following is a family member that lives on the Mexican side and who had continued to visit the family over the last weeks. This family has been in virtual isolation since they returned from Mexico and there is no evidence that they left the isolated farm from where they were picked up.

For now, there are no identified close contacts of them or any other family members that is considered as a highly suspect case. The community has also not provided any further notes of possible contacts.

These last 5 cases are therefore a cluster linked to illegal crossings along the Orange Walk District." End quote.

So, with that - Belize has now recorded 48 cases, and with 17 cases, the Orange Walk District now registers the highest number of total and active cases.