5 tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival in VI – Hon Malone
The Health Minister was at the time speaking as a guest on the December 15, 2020, episode of the ‘Honesty Speaking’ radio show moderated by Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline.
5 Persons tested positive on arrival
The Minister said that although policies required testing 5-days before travelling to the territory, persons arrived in the VI and tested positive on the first COVID-19 test.
“We know that once you swabbed in your port of origin, you still have chances to interact with persons before you board that plane so we test when you arrive. So on that test is where we have now found about 5 persons who have tested positive,” Hon Malone said.
He said, therefore, the government’s testing and policies worked because they were able to quarantine those persons and not have them throughout the community unknowingly with the virus.
He said another 4 persons were discovered in the 4-day quarantine period and subsequent test, bringing the total positive cases to 9 since the re-opening of the territory on December 1, 2020.
Gov’t looking to modify release time of test results
Hon Malone revealed; however, that government is looking to modify the test result release time from just a 24-hour period to between 24-48 hours, due to increased testing being done.
“We had promised 24 hours, we may have to look in terms of having that 24 to 48 hour period in order to get the results back.”
Hon Malone said the intention of the Government is not to stifle commerce but rather with increase testing, the result will take a longer time to be released, given that test results also require analysis.
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9 Responses to “5 tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival in VI – Hon Malone”
This statement right here gave me pause; Let me explain:
if this is possible then Hon. Malone “WHY” are we asking persons to test prior to coming in “When” one “HAVE TO” be tested “on Arrival” and be quarantined for 4 days regardless of their negative or positive status?— if one is negative prior to coming in and one is negative on arrival this does not negate them having to be quarantined for days later they can show up positive (the incubation period).. can anyone else understand where I’m going with my line of thinking?..in my opinion the only solace testing prior would be is that you were negative and sadly you picked it up along the way.. also even if you tasted negative prior to coming in you could have been exposed on that very same day of testing as welll a ne be a symptomatic.. all food for thought..
Negative (or positive) on arrival
Negative (or positive) after the 4 Day Quarantine
Statistics - it will help determine when a person got or did not get it ... how many arrived ... how many were N/P on arrival ... how many were N/P after the 4 Day Quarantine ... etc