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COVID-19 Public Health Group

The University of the West Indies
Cave Hill Campus Barbados

COVID-19 outbreak surveillance for the Caribbean

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, our small group of researchers from the University of the West Indies have been reporting on outbreaks across the region as they occur. We produce daily surveillance updates, and you can download these updates from the Tables below. We have produced peer-reviewed outputs on COVID-19 in the Caribbean, and you can read these articles here.

This page is now updated each Monday. For surveillance updates at any other time, send me an email.

The outbreak
Example Figure: COVID-19 outbreak in 6 Caribbean countries

Current surveillance downloads

Download our current surveillance outputs from the Tables below. We provide daily updates on the COVID-19 outbreak across the CARICOM community. The CARICOM has 15 member states and 5 Associate members 1.

Regional surveillance

Four downloads, providing aggregated surveillance outputs for the CARICOM region.

TypeDescriptionDownload
Press ReleaseBrief text summarizing the numbers of cases and deaths across the CARICOM region in the past week.pdf
SlidesSlide presentation summarising the current outbreak situation across the 20 CARICOM members.pdf
BriefingWeekly cases and deaths for 20 CARICOM territories combined.pdf
ProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people) for 20 CARICOM territories combined.pdf
HeatmapsHeatmaps for all CARICOM territories, showing daily and cumulative totals of confirmed cases and confirmed deaths. And we present a heatmap of outbreak case rates (per 100,000 people) in each country.pdf


Country surveillance

Surveillance downloads for each CARICOM member state, in alphabetical order.

CountryTypeDescriptionDownload
CARICOM regionBriefingWeekly cases and deaths. All individual countries in single download.combined pdf
CARICOM regionProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).  All individual countries in single download.combined pdf
AnguillaBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
AnguillaProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
Antigua & BarbudaBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
Antigua & BarbudaProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
The BahamasBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
The BahamasProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
BarbadosBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
BarbadosProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
BelizeBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
BelizeProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
BermudaBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
BermudaProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
British Virgin IslandsBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
British Virgin IslandsProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
Cayman IslandsBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
Cayman IslandsProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
DominicaBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
DominicaProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
GrenadaBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
GrenadaProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
GuyanaBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
GuyanaProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
HaitiBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
HaitiProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
JamaicaBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
JamaicaProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
MontserratBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
MontserratProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
St.Kitts & NevisBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
St.Kitts & NevisProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
St.LuciaBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
St.LuciaProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
St.Vincent & the GrenadinesBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
St.Vincent & the GrenadinesProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
SurinameBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
SurinameProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
Trinidad & TobagoBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
Trinidad & TobagoProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf
Turks & Caicos IslandsBriefingWeekly cases and deaths.pdf
Turks & Caicos IslandsProfileCase rate over time (per 100,000 people).pdf


Peer-reviewed COVID-19 articles from our group

Our COVID-19 peer-reviewed outputs:

DateArticleLink
2020COVID-19 containment in the Caribbean: The experience of small island developing statesDOI
2020COVID-19 in the Caribbean small island developing states: lessons learnt from extreme weather eventsDOI
2020COVID-19 in Children in the United States: Intensive Care Admissions, Estimated Total Infected, and Projected Numbers of Severe Pediatric Cases in 2020DOI
2021Impact of COVID-19 contact tracing on human resources for health - A Caribbean perspectiveDOI
2022Adaptation of a community-based type-2 diabetes mellitus remission intervention during COVID-19: empowering persons living with diabetes to take controlDOI
2022Children and the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a Caribbean perspectiveDOI




  1. The 15 CARICOM members states are: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. The 5 associate members are: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands. ↩︎