The Acting Chief Medical Officer in Barbados, Dr. Anton Best, has painted a grim picture concerning the COVID-19 situation in his country. 'We have a dire situation on our hands folks. The Delta variant is a game-changer,' Best declared as he addressed a news conference on Thursday, explaining that Delta has made containing infections extremely difficult. He observed that Barbados had experienced a very high number of COVID-19 cases over the last few weeks. 'If you look at the rate of cases in August or the total number of cases in August of this year, we had 689 cases. In
