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In an effort to curb the rapid spread of COVID-19 in homes and throughout communities, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley says that an effort to distribute masks across the island could be coming once deemed necessary.

it is serious and challenging because we are really playing COVID Roulette. We don't know who is going to be attacked with COVID

Speaking during a press conference called while in New York on Saturday, she said,"We know that the public is, where is it that the virus is causing us problems? It is not in our public spaces, it is in the homes regrettably and it is in the communities around the homes."

But she said that this is not a situation unique to Barbados. "Last night when we met with the prime minister of The Bahamas and when we discussed with the prime minister of Denmark that has been their experiences too though we take it from different points."

Therefore as it speaks to how Barbados will seek to arrest this situation, she stressed:

"The bottom line is that where we need to message or where we need to get the word around - call your neighbour and say, 'Darling, if you got these children coming in here all the time, remember to tell them to keep the masks on.'

"f you don't have masks, I'm going to ask that masks be distributed in every part of the country."

Looking at the new results of the epidemiological reports being conducted, the leader also said she is "bothered" bythe findings which show most of the children who are being affected now are under the age of 12 years old. She said that is a clear indicator COVID-19 is living in the household. She posited, "Children under 12 don't walk the roads. The majority of them are in the household, so I really want us to imply our hearts to wisdom as I have said over and over."

PM Mottley said that for the mask distribution she will call on and engage with the faith-based and non-governmentalorganisations in this fight on this note. "Working with the churches, working with civic groups, because we need, we need to make sure it is in that space."

Certain that "We will get through this. I am exceedingly confident," Mottley reminded Bajans to keep their guards up. She hammered home the point that only 2.57 per cent of Barbadians locally have caught COVID since last March. That is,more than 270,000 Bajans have not been affected, but who is next is unknown, she stressed.

"Barbados has had in the last 20 months, only 7,200 cases roughly of COVID. What does that mean? That more than 260,000 or 270,000 Barbadians have not had it. Now that does not mean that it is not serious, it is serious and challenging because we are really playing COVID Roulette. We don't know who is going to be attacked with COVID. Just as we put bullets in a chamber in Russian Roulette, you put in one bullet and you spin, you do not know who or what is going to happen to you when that trigger is pulled. And that can literally be the case with respect to COVID. We do not know who!"

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