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August 11th, 2021
’I was in battle' with COVID-19- Claude O. Skelton-Cline

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Pastor and commentator Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline said despite being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, he was in an ‘all-out war’ with COVID-19 after contracting the virus.

August 10th, 2021
COVID-19: Persons were 'backsliding' during Emancipation weekend- Dr Georges

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr Ronald E. Georges has warned Virgin Islanders against returning to the very habits that were a precursor to the last COVID-19 outbreak in the territory, peaking at some 1600 plus cases.

August 9th, 2021
Attack on SVG PM Gonsalves ‘shocking & reprehensible’- Premier Fahie

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Virgin Islands (VI) Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has called reprehensible and shocking, the recent attack on the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph E. Gonsalves.

August 7th, 2021
New 11:00pm to 5:00am curfew as restricted businesses allowed to re-open

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Government of the Virgin Islands has revised the territory’s Curfew Order to run from 11:00 pm to 5:00 am for a period of fourteen days with an initial review after the first seven (7) days.

August 6th, 2021
COVID-19 death toll now 37; hospitalisations & active infections drop

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The COVID-19 death toll in the Virgin Islands (VI) has increased to 37 as of August 5, 2021, however, total infections and hospitalisations have dropped significantly, Health Minister Hon Carvin Malone (AL) announced tonight April 6, 2021.

August 6th, 2021
COVID-19: HoA Speaker supports ‘mandatory vaccination’ in VI

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Speaker of the Virgin Islands (VI) House of Assembly (HoA) Hon Julian Willock says he personally supports mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for all in the VI, with some specific exceptions.

August 3rd, 2021
Prolonged online schooling could result in illiterate VI children- Bishop Cline

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Outspoken pastor at the New Life Baptist Church in Duff’s Bottom, Tortola, Bishop John I. Cline has warned that should physical school closures continue as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Virgin Islands may end up with a generation of illiterate children.

July 31st, 2021
Pfizer, J&J COVID-19 vaccines now available to VI residents

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Persons in the [British] Virgin Islands opting to receive the Pfizer or Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccines will now be able to do so through the introduction of the BVI-USVI Vaccination Bubble initiative.

July 31st, 2021
Delta variant prompts delayed reopening of physical schools

VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI - Pointing to the emergence of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the strain of the virus that research shows releases about 1,000 times more viral particles than the original variant, Governor Albert Bryan on Thursday ordered that the territory’s public schools utilize virtual learning when they reopen on August 9, 2021.

July 30th, 2021
USVI Gov Bryan blazes COVID vaccine doubters & conspiracists

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI - Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), Mr Albert A. Bryan Jr has expressed his frustration with vaccine doubters and conspiracy theorists, contending that people abuse their bodies all the time and that if the government wanted to kill people it could have done so already.

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