 As part of monitoring COVID-19 in St. Lucia, the Ministry of Health and Wellness is utilising its surveillance system to produce data to forecast the disease's impact on the country. National epidemiologist Dr. Michelle Foussois emphasised the need to draw data from influenza and respiratory disease surveillance in St. Lucia. In the epidemiology unit, one of the things that we monitor on a weekly basis is influenza-like illness. So cases of fever and cough we monitor on a weekly basis. We have noted that these numbers have been coming down nicely and we continue to monitor them. We also monitor on a weekly basis the number of cases of severe acute respiratory illnesses. So these are cases of fever and cough which need admission to the hospitals. So these, we have our baselines and these are monitored and we have not picked up increases in these numbers to date. We know that 15% of these individuals may require admission and another 5% may require ICU admission. So we are cognisant of that and we continue to monitor it now more than ever. Dr. Foussois also spoke on the efforts of the Ministry of Health to monitor deaths in St. Lucia to determine whether or not they are linked to COVID-19. We also monitor our deaths. So hospital deaths and suspicious deaths, what we do is these individuals are tested for COVID-19 and in order for us to be sure and be confident that we do not have any COVID-related deaths. The national epidemiologist also reiterated to date St. Lucia has recorded no deaths related to COVID-19. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Funa Leptun.