78 Active COVID-19 Cases

Despite the cluster that was detected at the Princess Casino two weeks ago, COVID-19 numbers are down across the country. The data up to May twenty-sixth shows that there are a total of seventy-eight active cases in Belize; seven new cases were detected that day. There were zero deaths and five additional persons have recovered from the virus. The casino was able to re-open today. Minister Chebat speaks on the success the country is seeing so far.

Michel Chebat

Michel Chebat, Minister of Health & Wellness

“We had a little bit of a concern with a spike in Belize City that we saw from Princess Casino, but the quick action of the medical team has resulted in no widespread of that cluster so to speak. So the numbers are back down and I am grateful to the team who are constantly out there conducting surveillance, making sure that people who need to quarantine are quarantined, testing, vaccinating. So we have an excellent team out there.  I think it is obvious, we can set as much regulations as we want in place, but if the public don’t accept them, if the public is not receptive and if they don’t follow it, then we won’t have any successes. So this is a combination of things. This is the public understanding the severity of this virus and accepting that we need to keep our distance, wear our masks, wash our hands. And so definitely it has been a major partnership and it is attributed to them.”