And while the market is being sanitized, the mayor has his own trial to go through with this latest case. That's because patient #55 came to visit him on the 20th of July. He readily volunteered the information:
Kevin Bernard, Mayor, Orange Walk
"I'm not going to hide anything from anybody, the fact that I reached out to the ministry of health - this individual that has contracted Corona Virus did visit my office here on the 20th July and so we are making sure that people can understand and that we want to make sure we are safe. We want to make sure that our staff is safe and so I made that request, in fact yesterday I was in communication with the public health officer along with her assistant so that we provided the names and contact reference for everybody that works in this office. Many of them may not have had direct contact and the way my office is set up that individual was more than 6 feet away from me, but was also wearing his mask on the 20th July. I think it was 14 days ago, but we felt it was important that we too past that information on, because when I heard the name I immediately got in contact with the ministry of health and give them that vital information that this person was at my office and so we have to make sure that we are also swabbed to get an ease of mind that we may not have or does not have the virus as well."
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