Against stacked odds, countries and territories in the Caribbean continue to fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as a regional summer caseload increase, fuelled by the Omicron variant and its ‘family of subvariants’, is now expected to cool. 

Though commendably hitting 104 consecutive weeks of keeping mostly closed cases, new infections (163,375 in total) across the Caribbean jumped 131 per cent over the last 30 days while the rate of closed cases (44,793) slowed in contrast.

Further analysis of regional data finds that all affected countries and territories except Dominica and the British Virgin Islands reported new cases within the last 48 hours†. Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe and Martinique rank as the five worst-hit territories in the region. 

As at 12:00 pm Greenwich Meridian Time (GMT) today (August 29), collated data from respective health departments across the region has indicated a combined total of 4,286,156 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Of that number, some 2,649,908 cases, or roughly 61.82 per cent, have officially been declared closed. There are an estimated 1,636,248 active cases regionally.

The statistics were largely the result of patients across the Caribbean reporting a full recovery from the infectious disease (2,613,591 recoveries to date, barring insufficient data out of Puerto Rico and France’s overseas territories region-wide).

In the meantime, the total number of patients who succumbed to coronavirus-related complications increased to 36,317.

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

Cuba: 70 new cases; 1,110,407 confirmed. 8,530 patients have died. (1,101,573 recoveries)

Puerto Rico: 2,084 new cases; 920,125 confirmed. 4,952 patients have died. (*No information available on recoveries)

Dominican Republic: 271 new cases; 637,573 confirmed. 4,384 patients have died. (632,073 patients have recovered)

Guadeloupe: 862 new cases; 315,924 confirmed. 907 patients have died. (2,250 recoveries)

Martinique: 855 new cases; 198,021 confirmed. 1,008 patients have died. (124 recoveries)

Trinidad and Tobago: 155 new cases; 178,687 confirmed. 4,132 patients have died. (168,228 recoveries)

Jamaica: 176 new cases; 149,596 confirmed. 3,250 patients have died. (96,352 recoveries)

French Guiana: 166 new cases; 93,586 confirmed. 408 patients have died. (9,995 recoveries)

Barbados: 86 new cases; 100,762 confirmed. 539 patients have died. (98,434 recoveries)

Suriname: 15 new cases; 81,022 confirmed. 1,383 patients have died. (49,608 recoveries)

Guyana: Eight new cases; 70,974 confirmed. 1,278 patients have died. (69,409 recoveries)

Belize: 76 new cases; 68,187 confirmed. 680 patients have died. (67,270 recoveries)

Curaçao: 64 new cases; 45,127 confirmed. 282 patients have died. (44,720 recoveries)

Aruba: 112 new cases; 42,696 confirmed. 226 patients have died. (42,216 recoveries)

The Bahamas: 12 new cases; 37,044 confirmed. 823 patients have died. (35,819 recoveries)

Haiti: 162 new cases; 33,295 confirmed. 841 patients have died. (30,518 recoveries)

Cayman Islands: 148 new cases; 30,057 confirmed. 29 patients have died. (8,553 recoveries)

St Lucia: 79 new cases; 28,621 confirmed. 389 patients have died. (28,075 recoveries)

US Virgin Islands: 14 new cases; 22,561 confirmed. 122 patients have died. (22,172 recoveries)

Grenada: Seven new cases; 19,289 confirmed. 236 patients have died. (18,878 recoveries)

Bermuda: 111 new cases; 17,785 confirmed. 148 patients have died. (17,516 recoveries)

Dominica: No reported new cases; 14,852 confirmed. 68 patients have died. (14,554 recoveries)

St Martin: 55 new cases; 11,131 confirmed. 65 patients have died. (1,399 recoveries)

Sint Maarten: 17 new cases; 10,826 confirmed. 87 patients have died. (10,723 recoveries)

St Vincent and the Grenadines: Two new cases; 9,428 confirmed. 115 patients have died. (9,295 recoveries)

Antigua and Barbuda: 54 new cases; 8,949 confirmed. 145 patients have died. (8,751 recoveries)

British Virgin Islands: No reported new cases; 7,131 confirmed. 63 patients have died. (7,044 recoveries)

St Kitts and Nevis: One new case; 6,509 confirmed; 46 patients have died. (6,446 recoveries)

Turks & Caicos Islands: Eight new cases; 6,359 confirmed. 36 patients have died. (6,285 recoveries)

Saint-Barthélemy: 21 new cases; 4,881 confirmed. Six patients have died. (462 recoveries)

Anguilla: 59 new cases; 3,805 confirmed. 10 patients have died. (3,754 recoveries)

Montserrat: Six new cases; 1,126 confirmed. Eight patients have died. (1,095 recoveries)

NB: There are no countries without active cases at this time