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CG Insurance to distribute COVID-19 rapid test kits
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - CG Insurance has secured Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test kits to help the British Virgin Islands move past the pandemic.
'Extremely slow uptake' of Pfizer booster shots concerning - Hon Malone
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Carvin Malone (AL) has called concerning a slow uptake of the available Pfizer vaccine booster shots in the Virgin Islands.
Crime up due to COVID-19- CoP Collins to SFC
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Appearing before the House of Assembly’s Standing Finance Committee (SFC) last year, as members examined the 2022 Budget Estimates, Commissioner of Police (CoP) Mark Collins spoke to the issue of crime in the Virgin Islands.
2 new COVID-19 deaths; 181 active cases in VI
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- There have been two new COVID-19 deaths in the [British] Virgin Islands (VI), bringing the total count to 51, according to the Territory's Epidemiological Summary today, January 31, 2022.
COVID & digitization
By Dickson C. Igwe
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VI's active COVID-19 cases drop to 272; 11 remain hospitalised
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Virgin Islands continues to see a rapid decrease in active COVID-19 cases, with some 272 active cases present as of today January 28, 2022, based on testing done on January 17, 2022.
UK PM Boris Johnson refuses to do the 'decent thing' & resign!
LONDON, United Kingdom- A stubborn British Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has refused to resign, even after facing renewed calls to do the "decent thing" and quit over the scandal surrounding Downing Street parties that were organised during a nation-wide lockdown in the United Kingdom.
Almost 80% of COVID-19 hospitalisations unvaccinated– Hon Malone
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Minister for Health and Social Development Hon Carvin Malone (AL) has revealed that unvaccinated persons are in the majority when it comes to COVID-19 hospitalisations in the Virgin Islands (VI).
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the brink of exit
LONDON, UK- Over the past number of months, the embattled United Kingdom Prime Minister and buddy of controversial former Virgin Islands Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert, Boris Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson, has been put under severe pressure to resign from some of his own Conservative Party members and from opposition parties.
COVID-19 cases on sharp decline in VI; 415 active cases recorded
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands is seeing a sharp drop in COVID-19 cases, with the total figure now at 415 active cases, according to the Territory's Epidemiological Summary.