Govt of St Lucia unashamedly continues to play politics: SLP

St Lucia: Saint Lucia Labour Party stated the Minister of Health and the Government are unashamedly continuing to play politics with the COVID 19 pandemic and the lives of Saint Lucia’s people. 

Moreover, On Wednesday 3rd March 2021, the Minister of Health, Mary Isaac, in a Newsspin program once again deliberately continued to spread the fake news, manufactured by the UWP Government, that a protest march by the Opposition Saint Lucia Labour Party on 4th October 2020, is responsible for the spike in COVID 19 cases that Saint Lucia has been experiencing from January 2021.

This statement is nothing more than a cynical attempt by the Government to hide its responsibility for 3426 cases of COVID 19 in the country from January to 1st March 2021 and the Minister of Health’s incompetence. 

The Prime Minister’s continued praise of this lost and inept Minister demonstrates his poor judgment and failure as a leader.

The Minister of Health does not seem aware that the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) gave permission for the march and is on record saying that there is no evidence to link the march to any rise in COVID 19 cases in the country. 

The truth is that it is the Government’s relaxing of the COVID 19 Protocols towards the end of December 2020, its refusal to close the borders to the UK in December to forestall the entry of the UK variant into Saint Lucia that has caused the tidal wave of COVID 19 cases since January 2021. 

In January, the Health authorities announced that five UK variant cases had been detected in Saint Lucia from samples sent to CARPHA in Trinidad in December. 

This means that the more contagious and more deadly UK variant has circulated in Saint Lucia from December 2020. It is, hence, no new that there has been a surge in COVID 19 cases in Saint Lucia from then.

Why has the administration been so silent on the presence of the COVID 19 UK variant in Saint Lucia? What is it hiding? We are now hearing that there have been 15 cases discovered in Saint Lucia. 

Where were they located? Is it true that the last ten samples sent to CARPHA for testing all returned positive to bring the number of cases to 15? Were they nationals or non-nationals? Are there more than 15 cases? 

How many of the persons who have died from COVID 19 since January carried the UK Variant? What is the truth about the COVID 19 UK variant in the country?

The Minister of Health and the Government will do better for Saint Lucia’s people by giving the correct answers to these questions instead of blaming their failures on the Opposition with fanciful stories while people are dying. 

This administration does not care about the people. Put the people first, not your party or its re-election campaign, Madame Minister of Health.

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