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October 29th, 2020
PR briefly recommends masturbation to avoid COVID-19

VI CONSORTIUM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s Health Department unveiled a safe sex campaign Tuesday, October 27, 2020, recommending masturbation as a way to avoid becoming infected with the coronavirus, but scrapped the whole thing within hours under heavy criticism from the US territory’s conservative society.

October 28th, 2020
8th day COVID-19 test for tourists under review

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – In an effort to bring down the associated costs of COVID-19 testing to tourists, as well as reducing the number of tests to be administered, Minister for Health and Social Development, Honourable Carvin Malone (AL) said the administration is working to review the 4th COVID-19 test requirement.

October 28th, 2020
No day trips into VI likely before March 2021- Hon Malone

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The tourism sector of the Virgin Islands that relies heavily on visitors coming into the territory on a day trip will have to wait at least another five months before it can begin to receive such tourists.

October 28th, 2020
VI’s reopening protocols ‘more accommodating’ than many destinations– Premier Fahie

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Amid criticisms from some persons that the protocols for visitors to the Virgin Islands are too stringent, Premier and Minister of Finance with the portfolio for Tourism, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has said the protocols are actually "more accomodating" than many countries.

October 27th, 2020
VI not seeking ‘short term benefits & long-term misery’ – Dr the Hon Wheatley

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries, and Agriculture, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has said the Virgin Islands (VI) is not looking for any COVID-19 economic strategy that will bring short term benefits and long term misery to the territory.

October 27th, 2020
COVID-19 led to discovery VI’s borders ‘quite porous’– Hon Malone

GREAT HARBOUR, Jost van Dyke, VI - Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Carvin Malone (AL) has revealed that it was the COVID-19 pandemic that led authorities to discover how porous the Virgin Islands (VI) sea borders really were.

October 26th, 2020
GPS tracking & multiple COVID-19 tests for VI tourists

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Tourists who arrive in the Virgin Islands (VI) from December 1, 2020, will be required to meet strict requirements, including GPS tracking and multiple instances of COVID-19 testing, before they are allowed unrestricted access to the territory.

October 26th, 2020
‘Not everyone is crying out to rush back into the classrooms’- Dr Wheatley

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI - Minister for Education Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries, and Agriculture, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (D7) says that, contrary to the picture of disaster being painted by some for political gains, COVID-19 online schooling has been a moderate success.

October 26th, 2020
VI is free of active COVID-19 cases again!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The [British] Virgin Islands has once again joined a small list of countries in the Caribbean with zero reported active cases of COVID-19.

October 25th, 2020
Gov't takes Tourism Certification Programme to Sister Islands

GREAT HARBOUR, Jost van Dyke, VI – Ahead of the December 1, 2020, reopening of the tourism sector in the Virgin Islands (VI), the Andrew A. Fahie-led administration is pushing for the certification of persons working in the sector through a programme with the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC).

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