Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle in the COVID-19 Daily Update of May 14 described the conditions at the quarantine and isolation facilities.
Based on the number of persons at the facility at any one time, some patients have to sleep two persons to a room which, at most, measures 12 feet by 10 feet.
The situation now is that some rooms have two patients inside with beds three feet apart while others have one person inside.
The medical personnel continually emphasise the importance of social distancing due to the high risk of cross contamination or reinfection but if we want hot food (the food of variable quality invariably arrives cold) or a hot cup of tea or hot water or cook, we have to use the one microwave and stove that many others are using in the male section.
One person tested negative in one week and did the second test (two negative tests results are required for discharge) the following day so that he could be cleared to go home but only got the results six days later and it was positive.
