 A total of eight St Lucia Nationals who repatriated from a cruise ship will be leaving the Rodney Bay Public Health Facility where they spend 14 days in quarantine. Individuals have shown no signs and symptoms of the virus. Minister for Health and Wellness, Senator the Honourable Mary Isaac, highlighted the importance of people being placed in quarantine. It is very important that the government take it on its own to quarantine persons when they arrive in St Lucia because I don't know if you remember initially, we were asking people to home quarantine and that did not work well at all. So it is the government's responsibility now to ensure that persons are taken into quarantine in order to protect the rest of our population. That is the only way you can be sure that the people are adhering to the protocols and that they are going to remain in quarantine for the 14-day period. Two of the individuals described what life in quarantine was like. We enjoyed it, it was part of the protocol that we went through but it was good, we enjoyed. I learned a lot because I came from the origin spirit and when we got to St Lucia you know it was we really enjoyed every minute of it and we learned quite a lot in terms of wearing the mask and washing your hands and those sorts of things and I guess I'm going to take that back home with me. It's healthy to be safe and to be here and make sure that you are not spreading the coronavirus and just to make sure that we're protecting our loved ones before we go home and we don't spread it to the people that we love. The eight individuals who left the Roddy Bay Public Health Facility were each presented with a letter stating that he or she is in good health. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Fynnell Neptune.