First person with covid in hospital in months

Wednesday 30 June 2021

There are currently 196 people officially confirmed as having covid in Jersey, with 1,892 direct contacts, and one person in hospital.

The Government's latest statistics round-up says that 128 people are showing symptoms and the remaining 68 people are not.

The Government said it cannot release any more information about the person in hospital due to patient confidentiality.

Today's statistics show that one person is currently in hospital. Due to patient confidentiality, we are unable to provide more information.

The number of active cases in the Island is 196.
128 cases are symptomatic and 68 cases are asymptomatic.

— Government of Jersey (@GovJersey) June 29, 2021

In yesterday’s States Assembly meeting, Chief Minister Senator John Le Fondré said that the virus's spread at the moment was “mostly around younger people, households and areas of what we call social contact.”

Answering a question from Deputy Graham Truscott on whether masks would be reintroduced following the emergence of the Delta variant, Senator Le Fondré stated that masks were “unlikely” to make an impact.

The legal requirement to wear masks in most public spaces was unexpectedly rescinded on 14 June. People must still wear them at the island's airport and harbour and on public transport. They remain strongly recommended in healthcare settings.

Senator Le Fondré said yesterday: “In the context of having having a very… good vaccination take-up across all those we want to be protecting, the view to date - but we continue to review the evidence on a very regular basis - is that masks would be unlikely to have had a significant impact on the present wave."

Pictured: Senator Le Fondré said the requirement to wear masks in most public spaces was unlikely to return.

He added that: “Not exclusively, but in general, [covid is] in the age ranges that are less impacted by the virus itself.

“That is where we are likely to be in that territory of getting closer to being in that new normal of living with covid - ie. treating it like a flu infection rather than the pandemic that we’re presently in.

“We’re not quite there yet, but on that basis that’s the view we are taking.”