Turning now to health, we've been reporting on the COVID daily positivity rate which zoomed to 23% earlier this week.
There are over one thousand active cases, but the number of hospitalizations reman low - which is consistent with the current strain of Omicron currently in circulation.
Today, the Minister of Health said that they are watching the trends and feel comfortable relaxing the last remaining COVID restriction on movement:
Hon. Kevin Bernard - Minister of Health
"I think yesterday we had a total 0f 1,011 it had gone up all the way to nearly around 2000 and the analysis that has been given to us and to me by our key people at the ministry is that there is 0 to minimal hospitalization reported and the case and the tests that have been done have proven that it is mainly the B1 B2 sub-variant and so there are little to no major effects in people. With all of that and having opened up the borders and having making sure that we are able to get things back and get to some level of normalcy we feel that it's now time for us to go back to Cabinet and say well we have reached the stage where we have pushed our efforts to vaccinate our adult population. We see the slow number of intake in the adult population. We are now pushing for our pediatric vaccinations and that agenda will continue but we feel that it has reached a level where it is now your personal responsibility whether you want to be vaccinated or not. Going forward it is of the view that we remove all restrictions that currently exist and those restrictions really were that if you're un-vaccinated you cannot leave the country and coming back in you are required to test. Based on the numbers that we are seeing and I said the numbers of 0 to very low levels of hospitalization the advice we are getting is that we remove all restrictions and then allow people to move freely."
