Health authorities have confirmed that five of Grenada’s current eight active COVID-19 cases are co-workers of a company that has since been ordered to shut its doors to the public.
The workplace is Caribbean Agro Industries, Grenada’s lone flour mill, which is owned by the United States firm ADM. The company imports wheat from the United States and mills it into flour and animal feed.
Dr George Mitchell, COVID-19 Response Coordinator, said on Tuesday that Grenada had one more laboratory-confirmed positive patient.
The tally is now 19 positives but, of that number, only 18 are on the island because one of the early cases left the island without medical permission before receiving his result. That person returned to the United Kingdom via Canada, with his wife and child.
“We can also announce that 10 of our cases are now recovered, which means that we have 8 active cases,” said Mitchell.
He disclosed that the new patient is a male, and he is a work colleague of the country’s 15th case and two others that were announced last Saturday, when an update was presented to the nation.
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