{"id":3116,"date":"2021-09-08T06:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sees-surge-in-covid-cases-2"},"modified":"2021-09-08T06:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:22:58","slug":"mauritius-sees-surge-in-covid-cases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sees-surge-in-covid-cases-2","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius sees surge in COVID cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\">Mauritius<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius has seen a dramatic surge in COVID-19 infections over the past week, but almost all are symptom-free, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mauritius recorded 1,067 new cases last week\u2014about a third of the 3,528 declared since the new coronavirus was first detected there in March 2020, according to official figures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cases are increasingly asymptomatic, which has led to a relaxation of controls.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 99 percent of cases are asymptomatic,&#8221; said Zouberr Joomaye, spokesman for the National Communication Committee (NCC), the body in charge of monitoring the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything is under control, the many quarantine centres are by no means overcrowded and there are no deaths or people seriously affected.<\/p>\n<p>Joomaye said most infections had occurred in schools, businesses or dormitories for foreign workers.<\/p>\n<p>And the authorities have ruled out a link between the increased caseload and the limited opening of borders to international travel this month.<\/p>\n<p>After long months of isolation from the outside world, Mauritius began welcoming international tourists again on July 15.<\/p>\n<p>But only vaccinated holidaymakers with a negative PCR test are allowed in, and they have to be confined to &#8220;bubbles&#8221; in their hotels or resorts for a 14-day quarantine before being allowed further afield.<\/p>\n<p>Mauritius, a nation of 1.3 million people, began its anti-COVID vaccination drive at the end of January with the goal of immunising 60 percent of the population by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Joomaye said 40 percent of Mauritians had received two doses, and 50 percent one shot.<\/p>\n<p>While the pandemic has largely spared Mauritius, its tourism-dependent economy has been hit hard.<\/p>\n<p>It plans to open fully to foreign travel from October 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius has seen a dramatic surge in COVID-19 infections over the past week, but almost all are symptom-free, officials said Monday. Mauritius recorded 1,067 new cases last week\u2014about a third of the 3,528 declared since the new coronavirus was first detected there in March 2020, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[233,245,395,241],"class_list":["post-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mauritius","tag-covid","tag-mauritius"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mauritius sees surge in COVID cases - Mauritius<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sees-surge-in-covid-cases-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mauritius sees surge in COVID cases\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. 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