BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - DESPITE the best efforts by health officials to keep the COVID-19 at bay, the Federation has crossed the 500 mark of confirmed cases.
In its Situation Report issued last evening (July 5), the Ministry of Health disclosed that the Federation has recorded 515 cases of the virus from last March to date.
The majority of those cases, 470, was recorded between May 19 and yesterday and many of them are on St. Kitts.
The spike over the last several weeks has been blamed on the contagious Lambda Variant, which was first identified in Peru.
It has prompted health officials in the Federation to implement strict measures to stop its spread, including a 24 hour lockdown that forces everyone to remain indoors.
Despite those measures, the numbers are still increasing, as there were 23 recorded cases on St. Kitts within the last 24 hours.
Data released from health officials showed that there are 275 active cases with 237 recoveries.
St. Kitts has been the hotspot, recording 497 cases, while Nevis has registering 18. There have been three reported deaths.
All of this comes as there continues to be some level of vaccine hesitancy.
The Federation has seen 41,850 doses administered, with St. Kitts registering 32,225 and Nevis 9,625.
Of that large number only 18,913 people were reported to have been fully vaccinated out of the 33,000 that the Government has been targeting.
