Montserrat's Active COVID-19 Cases Climb to 7

The number of active COVID-19 cases on Montserrat climbed to 7 over the weekend.

The Ministry of Health and Social Services in a press release issued on Sunday revealed that as part of its contact tracing efforts another case of COVID-19 was identified.

The Ministry said that that over the last 24 hours, 19 investigations for COVID -19 were conducted.

18 of which returned negative and one positive.

The Ministry said the new positive case, is linked to a known case and as such had been previously placed in quarantine.

The individual is said to be in isolation.

The Ministry of Health and Socials Services is advising residents to continue to self-monitor for signs and symptoms of the COVID-19 and immediately report any incidences of fever, cough, difficulty breathing or loss of smell and taste, runny nose or nausea and vomiting to the medical authorities via the flu hot-line 496- 9724 or to the Glendon Hospital Casualty Department 491-2836/2552/2802.