 As of April 21, 2020, the World Health Organization reported a total of 2,397,217 confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally with 162,956 deaths. There are now 893,119 confirmed cases in the region of the Americas. As of April 22, 2020, St. Lucia has a total of 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19. To date, all of the positive cases of COVID-19 in St. Lucia have recovered, with the remaining two cases who were in isolation receiving negative COVID-19 results and have since been discharged from the hospital. This now places St. Lucia at the 100% recovery rate of all COVID-19 cases. Among the 15 cases in Lucia recorded were individuals who fell within the category of high risk by virtue of some of them being elderly, as well as living with chronic illness, there to recover well with no complications or needed critical care. Laboratory testing for COVID-19 continues to be conducted both locally and with the support of the Caribbean Public Health Agency Laboratory. St. Lucia has modified its testing strategy by increasing the testing on the number of samples from the community respiratory clinics. This would assist us in the assessments of COVID-19 locally. St. Lucia continues on the partial shutdown and on a 10-hour curfew from 7pm to 5am. We remain at a very critical position in the implementation of the national response to the COVID-19 threat. Large-scale public health and social measures have been implemented in an effort to break the transmission of COVID-19 when in-country transmission was noted. The country must note that many of these measures need to be sustained in an effort to achieve low COVID-19 levels in country. Some of the measures that have been instituted include school closure, national zoning to manage population movement, the closure of non-essential businesses, travel restrictions, the partial national shutdown and the instituting of a 24-hour curfew. These measures recommended to guide individual risks include the use of masks, the testing, isolation, treatment and care of sick persons and the adoption of hygiene and other infection prevention measures. As seen in many of the more developed countries, even if an apparent decrease in the number of cases and the flattening of the curve, there have been periods of resurgence in their cases. When measures are relaxed and persons become more socially engaged, this provides an opportunity for smaller epidemic waves which are characterized by low-level transmission. It is with the benefit of this information, we note the necessity of conducting a risk assessment to arrive at the evidence-based approach in relaxing measures while ensuring the capacity to detect and manage a possible resurgence in cases moving forward. Everyone is asked to note that as essential services are made available to the public, the guidelines for social distancing need to be adhered to at all times in the interest of the health and safety of the public. In the context of this, we all need to be reminded that the threat of COVID-19 still exists and will continue to be with us for a while. Some of the national protocols include stay at home as much as possible unless it is for food or medical purposes, avoid mass crowd events and social gatherings, practice social distancing and good personal hygiene. The public is also advised against going to public places with flu-like symptoms including fever, coughing and sneezing. When visiting the supermarket or public places, refrain from touching items unless you intend to purchase them, we need to adopt a behaviour pattern moving forward with this new COVID-19 environment. Although hardware stores are open in an effort to facilitate household emergencies and increase water storage capacity, the public is reminded that we are still on national scale down. Only leave your house for essential goods. Another recommendation which the public is asked to adhere to is the use of face masks or scarves when going to public places such as the supermarket. The face mask or scarf may be used for source control by reducing potential exposure risk from infected persons during the pre-symptomatic period. This will measure support current efforts to protect the health and safety of our citizens. For the safe masks to be effective, you must note that to reduce infection, they must always be used as recommended. We will continue to advise the public to focus on the maintenance of standard recommendations to prevent the spread of infection. These include regular hand washing with soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer when soap and water is not available, to cover your mouth and nose with disposable tissues when coughing and sneezing, and to avoid close contact with anyone showing symptoms of respiratory illness such as coughing and sneezing, to also seek medical advice at the respiratory clinics if you develop signs and symptoms of respiratory disease.