Cabinet Spokesperson Melford Nicholas is suggesting that the Cabinet’s current decision that it will not return to another lockdown as part of its COVID-19 management is not cast in stone.
According to the minister, the situation is fluid and will require constant monitoring.
During the first few months of the pandemic, the country was placed on partial lookdown to help manage the spread of the virus.
However, with the lifting of the State of Emergency on December 24 last year, the Cabinet had announced that it was not contemplating any such move anytime soon.
“One of the things that have served us well because we keep looking at the things that we have done and the effect that they have had. We remain flexible and so in as much as it is our desire that the economy should continue to benefit from the new level of openness that we have had and we want to ensure that remains for as long as possible, certainly we will not be inflexible to the standpoint to commit to a policy of saying we will never go back to a shutdown but as in so far as it is possible if we are having the type of infections we are having now and we are not seeing the level of infections that are critical to getting to the situations in the hospital or the clinics then we think we can live with COVID in this particular environment but should that position change that cause those numbers to take upwards we would have to evaluate everything with a few to bring things back under control,” Nicholas said.
