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The following statement was issued this evening by Premier, the Hon. David Burt, JP, MP: “I must first thank everyone in the Ministry of Health for their outstanding work. They have worked long hours and weekends for many months now. As a country, we owe them our sincere appreciation.

“The Government is concerned about the increase in the number of confirmed cases of people with the coronavirus, that is the reason that we took the actions announced last night.

Good Day Members of the Media, 

The Ministry of Health is seeking assistance from members the public regarding potential COVID-19 exposures at three locations on the weekend of November 27th/28th.

Individuals associated with the following three events and locations have tested positive for COVID-19:

Good Day Members of the Media, 

There were 1458 test results received by the Ministry of Health over the weekend (5-6 December 2020), and eighteen were positive for COVID-19. 

Thirteen of the new cases are classified as local transmission with known contact/source with details as follows:

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) staff are currently involved in a full-scale examination of all imported Christmas trees. This year in the absence of the overseas pre-inspection by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) staff, the local inspection process will involve a full-scale examination of all imported Christmas trees.