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The Caribbean sees Montserrat re-emerge as its first territory without active coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in over a year, as the region fights to join the rest of the world in relegating the deadly pandemic to a bitter but soon-to-be-distant memory. 

The once-punishing Omicron variant-fuelled outbreak sweeping countries and territories across the basin continues to improve this week as active cases encouragingly plummet. 

Entering a 76th cumulative week of maintaining mostly closed cases, however, a few lingering hotspots still struggle to cauterise respectively plateauing infection rates. 

While COVID-19 infections are trending down Caribbean-wide, cases continue to remain either consistently high or have increased in Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Cayman Islands.

For the first time in six weeks, closed cases (147,796) outnumbered new infections (108,631) regionally in the last 15 days.

Further analysis of regional data finds all but one (Montserrat) of the 32 affected countries and territories have reported new cases within the last 48 hours. Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Guadeloupe rank as the five worst-hit territories in the region. 

As at 4:34 pm Greenwich Meridian Time (GMT) on Friday, February 11, collated data from respective health departments across the region has indicated a combined total of 3,134,660 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Of that number, some 2,248,648 cases, or roughly 71.73 per cent, have officially been declared closed. There are an estimated 925,177 active cases regionally.

The statistics were largely the result of patients across the Caribbean reporting a full recovery from the infectious disease (2,215,706 recoveries to date, barring insufficient data from Puerto Rico and France’s overseas territories region-wide).

In the meantime, the total number of patients who succumbed to coronavirus-related complications spiked to 32,942.

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

Confirmed cases to date: 3,134,660
Deaths: 32,942
Recoveries: 2,215,706*
Active cases: 886,012*

*—Data from Health Departments and Agencies across the Caribbean. (Full or partial recovery statistics have not been forthcoming from Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, St Martin, French Guiana, Saint-Barthélemy and Martinique)

Cuba: 1,149 new cases; 1,058,946 confirmed. 8,460 patients have died. (1,045,059 recoveries)

Dominican Republic: 810 new cases; 567,895 confirmed. 4,341 patients have died. (558,055 patients have recovered)

Puerto Rico: 1,069 new cases; 467,312 confirmed. 3,994 patients have died. (*No information available on recoveries)

Jamaica: 143 new cases; 126,732 confirmed. 2,720 patients have died. (72,574 recoveries)

Guadeloupe: 5,163 new cases; 119,534 confirmed. 808 patients have died. (2,250 recoveries)

Trinidad and Tobago: 738 new cases; 118,263 confirmed. 3,501 patients have died. (93,717 recoveries)

Martinique: 1,314 new cases; 104,060 confirmed. 827 patients have died. (124 recoveries)

French Guiana: 76 new cases; 77,164 confirmed. 384 patients have died. (9,995 recoveries)

Suriname: 205 new cases; 76,703 confirmed. 1,294 patients have died. (49,305 recoveries)

Guyana: 167 new cases; 61,901 confirmed. 1,188 patients have died. (57,309 recoveries)

Belize: 215 new cases; 54,973 confirmed. 631 patients have died. (49,625 recoveries)

Barbados: 519 new cases; 50,477 confirmed. 291 patients have died. (38,194 recoveries)

Curaçao: 99 new cases; 38,172 confirmed. 249 patients have died. (36,729 recoveries)

Aruba: 30 new cases; 33,436 confirmed. 196 patients have died. (33,092 recoveries)

The Bahamas: 32 new cases; 32,903 confirmed. 757 patients have died. (25,399 recoveries)

Haiti: 32 new cases; 29,939 confirmed. 807 patients have died. (25,033 recoveries)

St Lucia: 42 new cases; 21,873 confirmed. 346 patients have died. (19,889 recoveries)

Cayman Islands: 1,617 new cases; 17,687 confirmed. 16 patients have died. (8,553 recoveries)

US Virgin Islands: 21 new cases; 15,171 confirmed. 105 patients have died. (14,802 recoveries)

Grenada: 70 new cases; 13,172 confirmed. 213 patients have died. (12,503 recoveries)

Bermuda: 88 new cases; 11,146 confirmed. 120 patients have died. (10,754 recoveries)

Dominica: 121 new cases; 10,311 confirmed. 53 patients have died. (9,228 recoveries)

St Martin: 114 new cases; 9,774 confirmed. 63 patients have died. (1,399 recoveries)

Sint Maarten: 20 new cases; 9,469 confirmed. 83 patients have died. (9,106 recoveries)

Antigua and Barbuda: 10 new cases; 7,331 confirmed. 134 patients have died. (6,616 recoveries)

St Vincent and the Grenadines: 12 new cases; 6,721 confirmed. 101 patients have died. (6,495 recoveries)

British Virgin Islands: 12 new cases; 5,997 confirmed. 61 patients have died. (5,859 recoveries)

Turks & Caicos Islands: Seven new cases; 5,813 confirmed. 35 patients have died. (5,650 recoveries)

St Kitts and Nevis: Two new cases; 5,495 confirmed. 39 patients have died. (5,334 recoveries)

Saint-Barthélemy: 76 new cases; 3,687 confirmed. Six patients have died. (462 recoveries)

Anguilla: 22 new cases; 2,458 confirmed. Seven patients have died. (2,435 recoveries)

Countries without active cases

Montserrat: No active cases. (Previously confirmed 163 cases. Two patients died)