Sixty-nine of the 70 nationals who returned from Suriname were released and allowed to go home today, having completed their 14 day quarantine at the Debe UWI Campus.

Plans for their release was revealed  by Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh, during Friday’s virtual media conference.

Minister Deyalsingh explained, the lone person will be transferred to another facility. “The one person, we are not going to leave in Debe because the facility is simply to too big to house one person and we want to clean out the facility. That one person will go to Cascadia. So Cascadia will now have three unique individuals,” he said.

Of the three persons quarantined at the Cascadia Hotel is businessman Derek Chin, who arrived in the country earlier this week on a chartered flight from Miami.

One patient is at Caura Hospital and 21 returning from Guyana will be quarantined at  Tacarigua.