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From Red Bank to won’t happen on Nomination Day. This Wednesday, the political candidates from the P.U.P., U.D.P. and the smaller parties will be heading to nomination centres to get their names on the ballots. The P.U.P. will be first, their candidates will head simultaneously at ten in the morning; six other persons form part […]
Written on October 20, 2020 | Posted in
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Six players and four members of the coaching staff of the Verdes Football Club have tested positive for COVID-19. The team is currently in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic where tonight they were to participate in a match against the Arcahaie FC from Haiti as part of the CONCACAF Scotiabank 2020 League. But upon arriving to […]
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More than two thousand eight hundred cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country. Five hundred and thirty-one are currently under investigation. More than one thousand six hundred persons have recovered while forty-five persons to date have died from the virus. One thousand and ninety-six cases are active, mostly in the Orange Walk District […]
Written on October 20, 2020 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow has announced that COVID-19 positive persons who are eligible to vote will not be allowed to on November eleventh. Barrow says that it cannot be permitted because patients should be in quarantine and the logistics exercise would be extremely difficult. The anticipation is that those who are not positive will not […]
Written on October 20, 2020 | Posted in
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On Friday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced that persons who have tested positive for COVID-19 will not be allowed to cast their votes in the November eleventh general elections. The news has raised concerns of constitutional rights and the exercise of one’s franchise. While the opposition is yet to comment on the matter, U.D.P. leader […]
Written on October 19, 2020 | Posted in
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U.D.P. Corozal Southeast Standard Bearer Tony Herrera contracted COVID-19 while on the campaign trail in his constituency over a week ago. Since then he has been quarantined and his physical vote seeking activities have ground to a halt. But will he be fit to participate in Nomination Day come Wednesday? According to Party Leader Patrick […]
Written on October 19, 2020 | Posted in
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Thirty-eight new cases of COVID-19 were identified on Sunday and a further of twenty cases today. The majority of those cases were identified the northern districts of Corozal and Orange Walk. The Orange Walk District now has more than one thousand confirmed cases, almost forty percent of the total confirmed cases in the country. According […]
Written on October 19, 2020 | Posted in
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Forty-four other persons have recovered from the virus, leaving the total number of active cases to one thousand and ninety-six. There, however, two more deaths to report bringing the total number of persons to have died due to COVID-19 to forty-five. The country’s fatality rate is now at one point six percent, showing a slow […]
Written on October 19, 2020 | Posted in
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Belize Specialists Hospital has closed down until further notice after members of its staff tested positive for COVID-19. A total of seven persons have tested positive and are in self isolation. The affected staff members are showing mild to no symptoms. A release from the hospital says that a thorough sanitization of the facility is […]
Written on October 19, 2020 | Posted in
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The infection has spread to the Belize Healthcare Partners Limited. Several staff members and two patients there have been confirmed to be COVID-19 positive. And while Belize Specialists Center has closed, Belize Healthcare Partners Limited says that its services continue uninterrupted. According to the hospital, three weeks ago, BHPL was able to obtain approved Antigen […]
Written on October 19, 2020 | Posted in
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On Sunday, the COVID-19 infographic showed that forty-seven persons tested positive for the virus which has infected as many as two thousand eight hundred and thirty three persons as of tonight. Of that number, fifteen were frontline workers, including healthcare, B.D.F. and Coast Guard. Today we got an update from the Commissioner of Police on […]
Written on October 19, 2020 | Posted in
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If you are eligible to vote and have tested positive for COVID-19 or have been required to self-isolate just before November eleventh, you will not be able to cast a vote in the general elections. That announcement was made by Prime Minister Dean Barrow earlier today, despite an initial position taken by the Elections and […]
Written on October 16, 2020 | Posted in
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It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the frontline workers hard. Among those who have contracted the virus are security forces personnel. Currently, close to one hundred and seventy-five members of the Belize Defense Force are off duty as a result of the virus. There are one hundred and forty who are in […]
Written on October 16, 2020 | Posted in
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The number of COVID-19 cases among employees at the frontline in the fight against the pandemic is alarming. Earlier this week, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams discussed the effects of the disease on the rank and file of the Belize Police Department. And as you heard it has also taken root within the Belize Defense […]
Written on October 16, 2020 | Posted in
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Thirty-four new cases of COVID-19 were identified on Wednesday night. The Orange Walk District recorded the majority with sixteen new cases, mostly in the town. Cases were also recorded in the districts of Toledo, Stann Creek, Corozal and Belize. Nine hundred and eighty-three cases remain active; three hundred and sixty-eight of those are in the […]
Written on October 15, 2020 | Posted in
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Doctor Manzanero also spoke this morning about the ministry’s ability to deal with the increase number of patients who are dying and found to have the novel coronavirus posthumously. Manzanero says that plans are being designed to address the possible overspill of hospitalize COVID-19 patients. Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services “You have […]
Written on October 15, 2020 | Posted in
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The coronavirus has reached a significant number of law men including the police, B.D.F. and Coastguard. Tonight, more than fifty police officers remain COVID-19 positive. According to Commissioner Chester Williams, there are other officers who are now in self-isolation because they may have been exposed. In total, there are about a hundred officers who are […]
Written on October 15, 2020 | Posted in
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These days, the slightest tickle in our throats makes us all a bit nervous. Just a year ago, we would have easily dismissed such a symptom as a cold or flu. But this year, things are different. This is why health experts globally agree that getting a flu shot this year is more important than […]
Written on October 15, 2020 | Posted in
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Here is an update on the COVID-19 situation. The total number of positive cases is at a staggering two thousand five hundred and eighty-five cases, according to the infographic from the Ministry of Health. The last batch of one hundred and sixty samples turned up sixteen positive cases in southern Belize; one in the Stann […]
Written on October 14, 2020 | Posted in
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The quarantine facility at Camp D’Silva in Mountain Pine Ridge houses border jumpers, as well as persons who are returned to the country via deportation. Over the weekend, concerns were being raised about the status of these isolated individuals who claim that they were being held at the location but were not being swabbed and […]
Written on October 14, 2020 | Posted in
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Since the reopening of the Philip Goldson International Airport on October first, visitors arriving in Belize are expected to present a negative SARS COVID-2 test result. Those who did not get tested prior to departure are swabbed and tested upon landing at the P.G.I.A. The number of cases of COVID cases from visitors remains on […]
Written on October 14, 2020 | Posted in
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The number of deaths due to COVID-19 has gone up a notch. Two more persons died as a result of having contracted COVID-19 over the weekend. Those numbers were recorded earlier today to include a woman from Corozal District who died suddenly over the holiday weekend. That woman, according to Director of Health Services, Doctor […]
Written on October 13, 2020 | Posted in
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From recent statistics gathered by the Ministry of Health, there are indications that COVID-19 has found its way into three military camps in the north, west and south of the country. According to Doctor Marvin Manzanero, cases are also being recorded in the coastguard. The numbers up to Monday night show that there are nine […]
Written on October 13, 2020 | Posted in
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At the Belize Central Prison, the number of COVID-19 cases appears to be contained at sixteen thus far. According to DHS Manzanero, eight prison officers, as well as eight inmates, male and female are afflicted with the disease. Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services “The last note we had is that we had […]
Written on October 13, 2020 | Posted in
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At the Philip Goldson International Airport, new flights are being added to the daily schedule; however, some visitors are presenting nucleic acid tests as opposed to the standard tests being required by the Ministry of Health. DHS Manzanero further explains. Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services “The flights came on as programmed through […]
Written on October 13, 2020 | Posted in
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