It is reasonable for the citizens of Barbados to ask whether we are at the end of the road with COVID-19. With less than a week before our nation’s school children begin a phased return to face-to-face classes, we learn that even more COVID-19 related mandates are being abandoned.The Barbados Government Information Service (BGIS) announced, quite unexpectedly for some of us, that there will be no more routine quarantining for people who have potentially been exposed to the viral illness.Dr Anton Best, the country’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer was quoted as saying that while it has been the standard operating procedure to quarantine such persons, since the spread of the Omicron variant, it was no longer advised or utilised.
