Last Friday, Cayman’s Local Distillery – Cayman Spirits Co., announced efforts to begin production of an all-purpose sanitizer to alleviate the current stress on supply.
With increasing incidences of flu being reported in the Cayman Islands the Health Services Authority has expanded its flu clinic on the main Hospital campus with a dedicated unit to treat patients with flu moderate to severe symptoms and help mitigate the spread of the virus in other clinic settings
The global cruise industry is in disarray for the foreseeable future as travel restrictions due to the pandemic coronavirus outbreak takes hold.
Commerce Minister Hon. Joey Hew is urging members of the public to make use of government's e-services online platform to conduct business with government departments and agencies as the Cayman Islands prepares for the coronavirus.
Further to the announcement on a temporary ban on all public gathering of 50 people or more, the Ministry of Commerce, Planning and Infrastructure has clarified that staff members are not included in the numbers for establishments such as: • Bars; • Restaurants; • Hotels.
In order to protect our patients, the Health Services Authority is restricting all visitors effective immediately (14th March 2020), except for parents of children in the paediatric ward and those accompanying mothers in labour.
The announcement that we have COVID 19 in the Cayman Islands will be of great concern to everyone. However, this was not unexpected and the Government has been putting plans in place to minimise the impact.
The group of concerned residents who had campaigned to stop the Government’s plan to enhance the Smith Barcadere location have welcomed the Government’s U-turn stopping all work on the project.
The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) has confirmed testing for COVID-19 will be available locally from this week.
The COVID-19 outbreak is forcing a rethink of how society organises and conducts itself; from individual to group interactions.