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UPDATE: Schools to reopen with ‘face to face’ learning Sept 6, 2021
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Schools in the Virgin Islands (VI) will reopen with face to face instructions on September 6, 2021, Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) announced during a live update on Facebook this evening, August 10, 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.
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.
‘We had to discard some 685 vials of vaccines’– Hon Malone
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Despite repeated calls for the Virgin Islands public to come forward voluntarily to be immunised against COVID-19 before the vaccine shelf-life ended, Minister for Health and Social Development Honourable Carvin Malone (AL) said nearly 700 vials of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine was wasted.
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.
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.
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.
Public urged to help reduce COVID numbers ahead of HEOC advice on school
WICKHAM'S CAY 1, Tortola, VI- Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has urged all to play their part in reducing the number of coronavirus cases in the territory ahead of the Health Emergency Operations Centre (HEOC) advice on the new school year.
VI must find safer ways for tourism businesses to operate– Hon Penn
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Leader of the Opposition, Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) has said the Virgin Islands must find a way to make tourism businesses, especially those in the sister islands, operational in a safe matter and allow livelihoods to thrive.
COVID-19 over sanitisation killing the ‘good germs’- Angelle A. Cameron
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Former Mrs BVI Angelle A. Cameron, who also hosts the weekly ‘My BVI’ webcast talk show, has warned that an overabundance of sanitisation in the Virgin Islands (VI) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic may be killing out ‘good germs’ vital to building immunity.
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