ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC—Grenada confirmed Wednesday that Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell, who left earlier this week for Rwanda, has not traveled to the African nation due to the Marburg Virus Illness (MVD) outbreak.
Press Secretary Neila Ettienne confirmed that Mitchell, the chairman of the 15-member regional integration grouping CARICOM, just isn’t among the many leaders attending the Biashara Afrika Discussion board in Kigali due to the virus.
In his keynote tackle to the Discussion board, the host head of state, Paul Kagame, expressed appreciation to those that have been in attendance, saying, “It takes some quantity of braveness to proceed from wherever you have been due to the virus that has been going round.”
On Monday, a authorities assertion stated that Prime Minister Mitchell had left Grenada for Rwanda, and in his absence, Finance Minister Dennis Cornwall could be the appearing Prime Minister.
However Ettienne confirmed that the Prime Minister didn’t arrive on the Discussion board due to “unexpected circumstances,” responding within the affirmative when requested if his choice to not attend was due to the virus, as President Kagame talked about.
“Sure, his choice to not attend was primarily based on the virus,” she added.
As of Wednesday, Prime Minister Mitchell and his delegation had but to return house, and his whereabouts have but to be disclosed.
The Ministry of Well being in Rwanda stated the nation is battling its first-ever outbreak of MVD, a lethal sickness associated to Ebola. The illness doesn’t have any accepted vaccines or therapies. It was first confirmed on September 27, and as of October 6, the outbreak had contaminated 56 folks and killed 12.
In keeping with the World Well being Group (WHO), the MVD is transmitted to people from fruit bats after which by way of contact with bodily fluids of contaminated people.
Signs usually seem three to 21 days after publicity to an contaminated particular person. They embrace extreme headache, feeling weak, fever, watery diarrhea, belly ache, bleeding from totally different websites, together with beneath the pores and skin, and feeling sick.
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