And one event on San Pedro that is being closely looked at is the Grand Caribe Fishing Deep sea Classic Tournament that happened on the 18th and 19th of July.
This is now being called a super spreader event:
Dr. Marvin Manzanero, DHS
"We also think that the person in San Pedro that we identified on Sunday is not the index case. There is an indication that her family members actually fell ill before she became ill, so they probably were the initial index cases if you will or the initial index case and she was the last person in that immediate family to have fallen ill and she was the one we picked up. If that is the case, we are going to have to go back to retrace the steps to when this person, her partner became ill and go the 14 days before. In the event that we are following there is I think a couple of weddings that may have been involved, we do not know the amount of people in there and we are going to follow eventually if the partner of the person in San Pedro is positive today. The fishing tournament on August 18th and 19th sorry July 19th and 19th which is 3 weeks away, was 3 weeks before, so we would anticipate that the secondary contacts of whoever may have been exposed there would just, if they are going to develop signs and symptoms would have been just about the middle of this week unto early next week. If we are able to identify that then I think that we are going to have to classify that as a potential super spreader event that is the term we are going to use because one person that is how you can spread things across a country, across all geographic locations. Similar with the wedding situations we are just starting to get all that information. If people are coming from all across the country then those can be super spreading events if you will."
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