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The Director explained why this evening:

Dr. Marvin Manzanero - Director of Health Services
"June 30th was Tuesday so that was when the SOE was lifted and more free movement was ongoing after July 1st. When we follow the timeline as to how cases started to develop on the island and when it actually erupted around particular activities the 3rd week of July. The theory we have right now at the epidemiology unit is that from that first weekend in San Pedro is when we would have had asymptomatic people move from more than likely the northern districts to San Pedro and the following weekend we noted that there was significant amount of people moving to the island as well on vacation and lots of... actually we went back lots of activities being promoted on the island for Belizeans, for locals with rates and hotels being, having a higher number of people staying there so we felt that that is the timeline we have drawn, it would have been from the first weekend from the 3rd of July that weekend and then on the 10th of July would have been the weekends that there would have been an unusual amount of people who may have been one or two asymptomatic carriers and then people would have started developing signs and symptoms on the island around the 15th , 16th of July with an explosion in terms of bigger numbers during the 3rd week of July so we are finding that two weeks three weeks later translating into the number of cases that we have so when we draw that timeline in terms of incubation periods of the virus that is pretty much where we think it came through, it would have been starting from the first weekend in July and that is right after the SOE was lifted."