The British Virgin Islands and Montserrat stand as the only two Caribbean territories without active cases this week, as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to sweep the region.

Even as the region inches closer to a ninth week of stability, surging COVID-19 cases stoke further flames of worry that the usually busy and crowded Christmas period could pose a serious challenge for the Caribbean.

The gap between the region’s active and closed coronavirus cases grows smaller still on Tuesday (December 1), with 23 of the 32 affected countries and territories reporting new cases within the last 24 hours.

As at 8:23 pm Greenwich Meridian Time (GMT), collated data from respective health departments across the region have indicated a combined total of 294,372 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Of that number, some 190,933 cases, or roughly 64.86  per cent, have officially been declared closed. There are currently 103,439 active cases regionally.

The encouraging figures were largely the result of patients across the Caribbean reporting a full recovery from the infectious disease (185,450 recoveries to date, barring insufficient data from Puerto Rico and Martinique).

In the meantime, the total number of patients who succumbed to coronavirus-related complications has steadily climbed to 5,483.

At the time of publication, only two Caribbean territories have managed to bring their active caseload to zero, namely: the British Virgin Islands and Monserrat.

See Our Today’s latest situational analysis on COVID-19 in the Caribbean below:

Dominican Republic: 314 new cases; 144,302 confirmed. 2,333 patients have died. (115,530 patients have recovered)

Puerto Rico: 843 new cases; 52,545 confirmed. 1,122 patients have died. (*No information available on recoveries)

French Guiana: 36 new cases; 11,240 confirmed. 70 patients have died. (9,995 recoveries)

Jamaica: 47 new cases; 10,810 confirmed. 258 patients have died. (6,364 recoveries)

Haiti: 22 new cases; 9,294 confirmed. 233 patients have died. (8,023 recoveries)

Guadeloupe: 73 new cases; 8,427 confirmed. 149 patients have died. (2,242 recoveries)

Cuba: 97 new cases; 8,381 confirmed. 136 patients have died. (7,658 recoveries)

The Bahamas: 11 new cases; 7,541 confirmed. 163 patients have died. (5,889 recoveries)

Trinidad and Tobago: 16 new cases; 6,685 confirmed. 120 patients have died. (5,807 recoveries)

Belize: 111 new cases; 5,854 confirmed. 148 patients have died. (3,151 recoveries)

Martinique: 97 new cases; 5,520 confirmed. 41 patients have died. (124 recoveries)

Guyana: 17 new cases; 5,423 confirmed. 151 patients have died. (4,436 recoveries)

Suriname: No new cases; 5,312 confirmed. 117 patients have died. (5,194 recoveries)

Aruba: 26 new cases; 4,872 confirmed. 45 patients have died. (4,705 recoveries)

Curaçao: 15 new cases;  2,379 confirmed. Four patients have died. (1,151 recoveries)

US Virgin Islands: Six new cases; 1,550 confirmed. 23 patients have died. (1,493 recoveries)

Sint Maarten: Three new cases; 1,069 confirmed. 25 patients have died. (964 recoveries)

Turks & Caicos Islands: No new cases; 748 confirmed. Six patients have died. (717 recoveries)

St Martin: 26 new cases; 717 confirmed. 12 patients have died. (641 recoveries)

Cayman Islands: Eight new cases; 282 confirmed. Two patient have died. (254 recoveries)

Barbados: Two new cases; 278 confirmed. Seven patients have died. (255 recoveries)

St Lucia: Two new cases; 272 confirmed. Two patients have died. (131 recoveries)

Bermuda: Nine new cases; 260 confirmed. Nine patients have died. (214 recoveries)

Saint-Barthélemy: 14 new cases; 147 confirmed. One patient has died. (105 recoveries)

Antigua and Barbuda: No new cases; 141 confirmed. Four patients have died. (130 recoveries)

St Vincent and the Grenadines: No new cases; 85 confirmed. (80 recoveries)

Dominica: No new cases; 85 confirmed. (63 recoveries)

Grenada: No new cases; 41 confirmed. (30 recoveries)

St Kitts and Nevis: No new cases; 22 confirmed. (19 recoveries)

Anguilla: Two new cases; six confirmed. (Three recoveries)

Countries without active cases

British Virgin Islands: No active cases. (Previously confirmed 71 cases; one patient died)

Monserrat: No active cases. (Previously had 13 confirmed cases; one patient died)