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Covid cases at Psychiatric Hospital grow || no new cases at Ellerslie School

Covid cases at Psychiatric Hospital grow || no new cases at Ellerslie School

May 12, 2021
4:36 pm

A covid cluster at the psychiatric hospital continues to grow with five new cases reported there over night.

This was disclosed by Minister of Health Lieutenant Colonel Jeffery Bostic, during a visit to the facility today to mark international nurses day.

Meantime, in relation to the positive test of a student at the Ellerslie School the Health Minister says a series of tests of relatives and other contacts of the student in question as well of staff and students of the school have all come back negative so far.

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