 On Sunday, May 3rd, 2020, the Ministry of Health and Wellness recorded its 18th case of COVID-19 in St. Lucia. In response to this and as protocol, a team has been dispatched to the residents as well as the workplace of the individual. This is part of our normal protocol whereby we initiate contact tracing. Contact tracing is essentially trying to find all the individuals who have been in contact with a confirmed case. These individuals will be assessed based on their level of risk and their level of exposure and a determination will be made as to how best to proceed with these individuals. Persons who have been exposed and at high level risk, these individuals an assessment is made of their homes to determine whether it is possible to remain at home in quarantine or whether these individuals should be quarantined at an isolation facility or our quarantine facility. The teams are working on the ground as we speak. Individuals have been contacted, individuals have been brought in based on the level of assessment. These individuals have been brought in so that they can be very closely monitored by our health team. These individuals are not confirmed cases of COVID, but as per our protocol, they have to be monitored until proven otherwise. This is one of our measures and the measures taken worldwide to break the transmission chain and to ensure that COVID does not spread into the community. So the Ministry of Health and Wellness would like to reiterate that these cases, these persons who have been brought in are only for monitoring. We are following up these individuals, it is part of our normal and standard procedure where we assess individuals based on their level of contact, on their level of exposure and if they are not able to remain at home within the community for follow-up, then they are taken to our facility where they can be monitored by the medical staff there.