According to the health bulletin dated March 31, the French side has 21 cases of Covid-19.

Of these 21 patients:

- Two are cured, they were the parents who came from the Oise at the beginning of March to visit their son in Saint-Barth. On their way back to Juliana, they were picked up by the French authorities and transported to the Louis-Constant Fleming hospital where they were isolated.

- An American who was on a boat. He was repatriated to Florida where he was from. The transfer was taken care of by his insurance.

- Two Swiss tourists. They stayed in French part and went to Juliana airport to fly to Europe. At the airport, they presented symptoms and Juliana's agents did not want them to board and asked the French authorities to recover them.

- Two men died, one was domiciled in Agrément and aged 81, the second was domiciled in Grand Case, he died of a scooter accident and tested positive for Covid-19 post mortem.

= of the 21 patients, 5 are tourists, the other 16 are residents who may or may not have traveled recently.

In the French part, 87 tests were carried out on March 30, according to our sources. If only positive residents (16 cases) are considered, almost 18,4% of the tests were positive. The tourists are counted in the French part because they stayed there but they frequented the two parts of the island as much.

The Dutch side

According to the health bulletin dated March 31, the Dutch side has 16 cases of Covid-19. These are residents who may or may not have traveled. 58 tests were carried out of which 27,6% were positive.

As of March 31, the two parts of the island each had 16 contaminated residents (not counting the deaths). The first two cases were reported on March 17. Since then, the number of cases has increased gradually in the French part. The Dutch side counted two cases for several days, then three on March 26. The number then doubled on March 28 and jumped to 16 on March 31.

In total, the island has 32 positive cases for an official population of some 75 inhabitants. This represents a ratio of 000 infected persons per 0,42 inhabitants. Compared to Guadeloupe, which counted 1 cases yesterday, the ratio is 000 per 114 inhabitants. (soualigapost.com)

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