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Chapman says “don’t panic”

October 7, 2020
10:34 pm

The head of the Covid-19 Monitoring Unit, Ronald Chapman, says some Barbadians are over-reacting to last weekend’s announcement of a covid-19 cluster that includes two students from the Ellerslie Secondary School.

He terms the response unnecessary hysteria.

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