Govt Not Proactive Enough In Response To Coronavirus

Wed, Mar 4th 2020, 06:30 PM

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Leader Philip "Brave" Davis believes the government has not been sufficiently proactive in handling the country's COVID-19 preparedness. According to Mr Davis, the government has been "too general and too generic" with its strategy. He said by now, officials should have already formed a task force with protocols in place to prevent the new coronavirus' entry and spread in The Bahamas. Meanwhile, Chief Medical Officer Dr Pearl McMillan said in a statement yesterday that a laboratory with capacity to test for the virus was established last week at the National Reference Laboratory in New Providence.

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