But while mostly adults are getting tested - what about children? Especially school aged children?
Hybrid learning is set to start next week - and, despite the COVID numbers, schools are boldly pushing ahead with plans to have most students spend at least two days a week in the classroom with their peers.
It's a tough but necessary call because while Omicron may be spreading - so is mis-education, leading to major gaps in learning that will be felt for many years to come.
So while kids have to go back to school - when should you keep them at home? The Sunup hosts asked Dr Diaz:
Dr. Melissa Diaz Musa, Deputy Director, Central Health Region
"There are certain situations that you should not send your child to school, you know if you have someone sick at home, if you have someone at home in isolation or waiting for a PCR result. If the child wakes up in the morning isn't feeling well and has even red eyes and sneezing then keep that child at home because we don't want that every single day, we have to close classrooms or make changes to that routine. So there are certain things that the school still overlook to say okay if this child can't come in, this child can't come in. It's better to be safe and it's better to ensure that this is definitely not a child or a teacher with covid than for them to go in and then 2 says after you got to close the classroom or do swabbing. In addition to that the Ministry of Health and Wellness we have are working with the Ministry of Education to try to do some routine swabbing before schools open especially for the teachers and try to improve our vaccination rate in the schools as well, so we are going to start to go into schools this today, tomorrow and Friday in the Belize District at least trying to get our vaccine rates up in students and to do some swabbing if we can just prior to schools opening."
Diaz says she will be sending her kids to school next week.
