50% of residents of Palms tested for COVID-19

At least 200 residents at the Palms Geriatric Home have so far been tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) amid reports that several of them have tested positive.

That figure is about 50 per cent of the occupants at the Home.
Director of Social Services, Whentworth Tanner stated that efforts were being made to have all of the residents tested in phases.
Over the past weeks, six new patients, all female, have tested positive, taking the total cases at the Palms to 12, with one death.
In a recent interview, the Director of Social Services confirmed that the additional patients who tested positive for the virus have been placed in isolation at the infirmary of the Palms. He added that several staffers of the facility had been placed in ‘home quarantine’.
Tanner said that the situation at the Palms was being closely monitored by the Public Health and Social Protection Ministries.
The Palms recorded its first case of COVID-19 in April. Meanwhile, at a national level, the Public Health Ministry has so far recorded a total of 150 confirmed cases and 11 deaths.