He said there remained a probability that people could be walking around asymptomatic with COVID-19 and be infectious. We limited them coming into the wards, and they all crowd around outside the wards. We stopped them from coming into the clinic waiting room, and they all crowded around the door. We tried to restrict entry to the hospital and everyone crowded outside by the door. “In the hospital (QEH), in particular, we are having difficulty convincing people to use tents outside and restrict their visiting and not sitting down next to each other. “The most important thing in staying safe is personal distancing and the avoidance of crowding,” the veteran physician said. We seem to have gotten to a place now where we will do the mask but not wear them properly all the time and having them beneath the nose or mouth, and feel that’s enough.”Īdded to that, he said Barbadians were not doing themselves any favours in relation to physical distancing. The reason we were successful in the first place was that we did things right in terms of wearing the masks and staying away from crowds. “We seem to be taking this period now very nonchalantly as though the problem has been resolved with the virus. He said that unless something changed immediately, Barbados could face a second spike of the coronavirus should just a few infections occur in the community. In an interview with the DAILY NATION yesterday, Cave said though it was mostly young Barbadians out partying or socialising and either not wearing masks the correct way or practising physical distancing, his concern was the elderly at home, who could be infected by relatives carrying the virus. Clyde Cave, who is concerned that the lack of proper mask-wearing and bunching of people at events could lead to catastrophic consequences for the country. So says the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s Director of Medical Services (Ag.) Dr. The Shaw Centre For Paediatric ExcellenceīARBADIANS HAVE DROPPED their guard amid the COVID-19 pandemic and need to space out more, especially at places of entertainment.Infection Prevention and Control Department.