Cayman COVID transmission free for one 12 months

Cayman COVID transmission free for one year

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(CNS): On Sunday the Cayman Islands will mark one year without an single local transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the community. Since last July the only cases have been among travellers arriving with the virus and moving into quarantine, which has prevented any transmission, a situation that sets the country apart from almost every other in the world. There was just one new case in a traveller on Friday, according to the latest test results, which means that there are currently just two cases of COVID-19 among those in isolation, both of whom are asymptomatic.

The first case of COVID-19 was reported on 13 March last year in a visitor who was just one of two people who died from the virus here. The Cayman Islands has used strict border control, travel regulations, stringent technology-based quarantine measures and rigorous contact tracing to keep the virus at bay.

“The Cayman Islands is one of the first jurisdictions to have avoided community transmission for this…

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