PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis declared “war” against the novel coronavirus yesterday, saying new regulations granting him sweeping emergency powers over the Bahamian society are needed to save lives. “The new emergency measures we are enacting are to save lives and to protect our country and only those that are against such measures are not interested in lives nor are they interested in their country,” he said in the House of Assembly, a day after Governor General Cornelius Smith issued a proclamation of emergency that allowed him to enact the new regulations. Dr Minnis announced that the country recorded its second and third confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, who were identified through contact tracing.

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