Marlon Chevery, aged 39 years, is the first Covid 19 positive patient to die at his home on Monday 7 February during self-isolation. His family is claiming that there was medical negligence. He passed away at 7:30 pm while waiting for the DMU and an ambulance to arrive.
The 39-year-old man had tested positive over the weekend. He was suffering from a high fever, breathing difficulties, aches and pains and went to the hospital on Sunday. After consulting him, the doctors advised him to go into self-isolation. His state of health did not improve since then and on Monday, his family contacted the health services to rush him to hospital. However, this could not be done while he was still alive. His body was, nevertheless, taken to the hospital where doctors attributed his death directly to the Covid 19 virus. Marlon Chevery, from Baladirou, suffered from several comorbidities and was vaccinated with Johnson and Johnson.
The 10th district currently has 3726 positive cases, including 420 new active cases in the last 24 hours. The island also has 282 cured cases. The island is in a semi-lock down situation, so activities are being carried out under barrier gestures. 3 commercial flights from Mauritius are scheduled for 15, 18 and 23 February. Quarantine will be charged for a certain category of travellers. The Central Health Lab in Candos has not yet confirmed whether the virus that is spreading rapidly in Rodrigues is a variant or not. At the last sequencing of 24 positive samples, all 24 had characteristics close to the Omicron variant.
However, a second death of a positive patient has been recorded. It is Julienne Jean Pierre, aged 81 years. She had several comorbidities and complications.
