70-year-old American dies at Sandals Resort in the Bahamas from COVID-19

An American visitor in his 70s died of COVID-related symptoms at a Sandals resort in the Bahamas, three months after three other Americans were murdered by carbon monoxide at the same resort.

A representative for the Royal Bahamas Police Force said that a preliminary investigation is being conducted, but no foul play is suspected. Local officials informed NBC News that they suspect the man had just tested positive for COVID-19. ‘Thereafter, he isolated himself,’ Bahamian police said in a statement.

The man’s official cause of death has not yet been made public, and it is unknown if the infection was ultimately responsible for his passing.

The statement said, “The corpse of the deceased is likely to be taken to New Providence, where an autopsy will be done to ascertain the precise cause of death.”

According to local officials, the visitor was vacationing at the Sandals Emerald Bay Resort in Great Exuma. It is the fourth occasion in less than three months that an American visitor has died at the resort. In May, carbon monoxide poisoning claimed the lives of Michael Phillips, 68, Robbie Phillips, 65, and Vincent Chiarella, 64, from Tennessee and Florida, respectively.

The couples stayed in adjacent villas inside the same complex at Sandals Emerald Bay.

It was unclear if the villas included carbon monoxide detectors and, if so, whether they were operational.

Carbon monoxide detectors have subsequently been put in all guest rooms at Sandals’ Emerald Bay resort, and will be installed in all hotel rooms elsewhere, according to Sandals.

Donnis Chiarella, 65, was discovered alive and taken to New Providence for medical care before being moved to a Florida hospital. It is thought that she has made a complete recovery. According to the Bahamian Police, all four visitors saw a physician the night before their corpses were found and complained of feeling unwell.

All of the American victims were believed to have had convulsions before to their deaths, and there were no evidence of damage on their corpses, according to the police.

When Donnis Chiarella of Panama, Florida awoke, she was immobilized and discovered her now-deceased husband immobile in the room, the couple’s grieving son Austin told ABC News earlier.

The afflicted son said that his mother had first been unwell one day before and attended a nearby clinic. She was released from the hospital soon after and assumed that her health had improved.

“When she awoke, my father was on the floor, and she was unable to move,” he said. She was unable to move since her legs and arms were bloated, and she shouted for someone to open the door.

A preliminary inquiry revealed that the Phillips had also ‘complained of sickness the previous evening,’ police had earlier said, adding that the couple ‘went the nearby Medical facility’ for treatment before returning to their hotel.

Prior to a month ago, Sandals published a statement claiming the fatalities were unrelated to the resort’s air conditioning system, food and beverage service, landscaping services, or criminal activity.

It was unclear where the carbon monoxide that killed the vacationers originated. A representative for Sandals forwarded all queries to the police, while Bahamian police spokesman Audley Peters said that he was unable to offer the information “at this time” and did not answer to any more questions.Vincent Chiarella, left, was found dead at a Bahamas resort in May by his wife, Donnis, right, who survived the ordealThree Americans were also found dead at the same resort as the death reported on Tuesday. Michael Phillips, 68, right, and his wife, Robbie Phillips, 65, of Tennessee, suddenly died from carbon monoxideThe US State Department is 'closely monitoring' a probe of American tourists deaths at the Sandals Emerald Bay resort in Grand Exuma, BahamasAn American male in his 70s who was self quarantining after testing positive at the Sandals Emerald Bay resort in Great Exuma, Bahamas, died on Tuesday. His death is the fourth death at the resort in three monthsOne day before her death, Robbie posted pictures of the beach to her Facebook as she apparently tried to sell others on the idea of the resort

The business said, “We have taken extra steps, including hiring environmental safety specialists to conduct a full examination of all resort systems.”

Michael T. said that the resort is deteriorating and that he would not return there ‘anytime soon.’

Michael stated, “What we saw was a resort in a condition of disrepair and grossly understaffed.” Air conditioning, plumbing, lack of towels, newly hired and inadequately trained personnel, and overworked staff. Sadly, we had to witness the passing of three visitors and the wounding of a fourth. It was, to say the least, impossible to relax under these conditions.

Reviewer Cameron H. mentioned the incident and said that the resort did little to reassure its visitors or even inform them that they were safe.

They also said that the resort required extensive renovations and that the cuisine was “terrible.”

Other concerns about the resort include ‘no soap’ in the majority of restrooms, malfunctioning air conditioning, and rooms not being ready on schedule.

Seven years before to the fatalities, a Delaware family became gravely sick visiting a resort in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Authorities in the United States discovered that methyl bromide, a very poisonous pesticide prohibited for indoor residential use in 1984, was the cause and had been applied several times at the resort in question.