Barbados on Pause – Busy Supermarkets and Shuttered Shops
Established October 1895 Homeless shelter closed due to COVID-19 case PAGE 3 Wednesday February 10, 2021 $1 VAT Inclusive DELAYED REACTION DEMOCRATIC Labour due to the COVID-19 pan- January. responses to levels one, two and “What has happened is that Party (DLP) Spokesman on demic. Gibson made reference to the three COVID-19 threats. It indi- they have failed to lockdown and Health, Paul Gibson, be- He stated this during an inter- ‘2020 COVID-19 Playbook/ cates “that when you hit level as a result of that, we are find- lieves that had government view with The Barbados Management Protocol’ that three of COVID cases which ing ourselves in the first week of issued a national lockdown Advocate yesterday, where he gives guidance to the response means that the system is over- February trying to pull this earlier, it could have suggested a national shutdown to escalating COVID-19 num- whelmed, as it is, that we lock- whole pandemic back because avoided the system being should have been announced in bers in the country. He said the down.” However, he said this the horse is out of the stable, the clogged and overwhelmed late December or in early document directs the relevant was not followed. DELAYED on Page 5 THE VACCINES ARE HERE: The long awaited Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccines have arrived on island, ahead of a National Vaccination exercise, as the country ramps up its fight against the spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley (left) led the welcome party at the Grantley Adams International Airport, and was accompanied by Chairman of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on COVID-19 and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Dr.
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