Please see the press release and video by Dr Newton explaining the rationale for the upcoming change in reporting. While the daily update will temporarily report reduced statistics for the next six days, numbers of traveler and community positives should be included again from tomorrow. Deaths will be included as needed. Also available on our website at: https://www.ieyenews.com/cayman-covid-19-reporting-shifts-to-match-international-practices/

Grand Cayman – Chief Medical Officer (Interim) Dr. Autilia Newton today reported 380 new positive PCR tests for COVID-19. 

While the number of confirmed cases of the Omicron variant in the Cayman Islands remains at 132, the number of probable Omicron cases reached 2,058 during the reporting period. 

Ten COVID-19 patients were hospitalised in the Cayman Islands as at midnight on Thursday, 13 January. Three new inpatients were included in this number.

Meanwhile 11 new cases of COVID were reported in the Sister Islands.