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PHILIPSBURG: --- St. Maarten has registered 70 active COVID-19 cases as of today August 3rd, 2020, with 167 persons in quarantine. The numbers on St. Maarten is steadily increasing since July 1st, 2020. Currently, the Netherlands has placed travel restrictions for the island and had coded St. Maarten Orange.
Among the infected are two Members of parliament namely Sidharth Cookie Bijlani who is currently hospitalized and Raeyhon Peterson along with Dutch representative Chris Johnson.
While St. Maarten is battling the COVID-19 pandemic at its second wave, the island has opened its borders to US visitors as of Saturday August 1st, 2020. Passengers that arrived on St. Maarten were all tested negative and they are all staying on the Dutch side of the island the borders between the two sides are being controlled.

COVID-19 now at 70 confirmed cases.

 As of August 3rd, at 18:00, St. Maarten has confirmed four new cases of persons who have tested positive for the Corona Virus (COVID-19). The new total of confirmed cases now stands at 150.

Of the active cases, the Collective Prevention Services (CPS) are monitoring 68 people in home isolation. Minister of Public Health Social Development and Labour (VSA) the honorable Richard Panneflek stated we now have seventy (70), active cases of persons who have contracted COVID-19.

One patient is currently hospitalized and one patient is isolated and being monitored.
The total number of deaths due to COVID-19 remains at 16.

The number of people recovered since the first case surfaced on St. Maarten earlier this year remains at 64. One hundred and sixty-seven (167) people are now in quarantine based on contact tracing investigations carried out by CPS on persons who may have been in contact with any of the 70 active cases.

In a continued effort to control, the spread of the virus CPS has now tested 239 people at the Princess Juliana International Airport, (PJIA) and 787 people throughout the community. As the numbers continue to increase for positive cases, CPS will continue to actively execute its contact tracing measures.

Let us all continue to wear masks, practice social distancing, sanitize your hands as frequently as possible, and wash your hands with soap. Together we shall overcome the spread of COVID-19 on Sint Maarten.