Test results: Under 1% positive for COVID in TCI

#TurksandCaicos, May 27, 2021 – Less than one percent of the people tested for COVID-19 in the past week in Turks and Caicos were positive for the virus. 

The Ministry of Health continues to provide daily updates and in reviewing dashboards from last Friday, we learn there were 303 PCR tests were performed and two people were positive; one in South Caicos, taking that island to two individuals with the virus and the other in Providenciales, where there are four people on record with Covid-19. 

Nationally, on record there are six active cases in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

In the past two days, there have been no positives out of 133 tests performed at the Natl Public Health Laboratory.  It is also a dramatic shift from a few months ago when the hospital was at 150 per cent capacity.  Now there are two hospitalisations due to Covid-19. 

Despite, TCI remains – unfortunately  and some say, unfairly – at CDC Level 4 Travel Alert; which means high risk for COVID despite the improvements.